[Design] [Sum] Sidebar Collection icon treatments

Philippe Bossut pbossut at osafoundation.org
Fri Aug 25 23:18:14 PDT 2006


Mimi Yin wrote:
> I have produced both the checkmark mouseover icon AND the eye 
> mouseover icon as promised below. What is the best way to test both of 
> these approaches? Sequentially in subsequent builds?
Once the sidebar has been tweaked to allow the new size to display 
correctly and the mouse down event to work, you can simply substitute 
the relevant png on your local machine and test all you want without 
having to wait for a new build. Going around with your machine and 
showing one and the other alternatively will give you quite a bit of 
valuable feedback I think. If all you want is a visual check, that's the 
fastest approach.

If you want feedback from dogfood users "in the wild", you may want to 
commit alternative png just before a checkpoint build. That being said, 
I don't think lots of dogfooders are using the checkpoint builds right 
now. It's either the last released alpha or a daily build. At least, 
that's what I gather from the bugs I see logged. So may be you should 
commit one set of png one week and post here to say "this is eye icon 
week, let me know if you like it" and commit them again the next week 
with the alternative design and post a "this is the check icon week" 
message. I can see that approach giving you more feedback and exposure.

Cheers,
- Philippe


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