[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23333: New icons

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#23333: New icons
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 Reporter:  empireoflight   |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement     |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  3.6
Component:  Administration  |     Version:
 Severity:  normal          |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus        |
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 I gave it a few days, and I haven't come around yet.

 Regarding packing extra icons into the core set, once we pick them, we
 can't change them, as plugin authors will rely on each and every icon
 being what they are, in the same position in the typeface, in perpetuity.
 If my shopping-cart icon magically turned into a snapping turtle, I would
 be a little frustrated.

 Going with my previous comparisons to existing conventions, the top level
 menu icons in WordPress are more closely akin to the preferences icons in
 OS X apps, in that they visually draw attention to the hidden fields
 beneath them because of their color, shape, and connection between words
 and iconography.

 In a completely anecdotal survey of my most commonly used apps (Linkinus,
 Skype, Firefox, Sequel Pro, MAMP, iTunes, 1Password, Sparrow, and a few
 others) every application uses the same color-icon & text convention. It's
 familiar and consistent.

 Ironically, the app I spend the most time in (Chrome) has very few of it's
 own icons anywhere, relying mostly on favicon's for history, and a sparse
 iconset for setting up multiple users. (These icons, I'll add, are color.)
 Not surprisingly, I personally find Chrome's settings panel to be
 difficult to grok, and resort to using the search input box to find
 things, which I suspect was the intention anyways.

 I'd like to see what a muted set of icons looks like, with stronger
 outlines and no shadows (basically to more closely match the bbPress
 icons' stroke size.)

 > Posted ​(...) for discussion about the icons themselves...
 Forgive my ignorance of your process, but I get confused when
 conversations get forked in the middle (especially when both forks are
 about the same thing.) In the future, should I post comments like this
 here, or there?

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