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From: andyp@parallax.co.uk (Andy Piper)
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To: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, jens@lemming0.lem.uni-karlsruhe.de
Subject: Re: recently posted toolbar icon replacements
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> I vote against most of these icons. They look good (most of them), but
> only a small subset is easily recognizable what they should do. A
> black-forest house meaning open directory -- ah, come on!)
> 
> The old ones may b a little bit greyish, but they obey the golden
> rule of design: *form* *follows* *function*

I deliberately made them grey for this reason. I found that colour
made them less clear, and they tended to clash since a colour that
was right for one was wrong for another.

OTOH I think the CDE icons strike the right balance between 
colour, readability and uniformness. They're just too damn big.

andy

