Bug 357271 - Device icon is confusing
Summary: Device icon is confusing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Theme - Breeze (show other bugs)
Version: 5.4.3
Platform: Debian unstable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2015-12-28 18:00 UTC by Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli
Modified: 2017-08-25 14:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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2015-12-28 18:02 UTC, Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 		Details
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Description Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2015-12-28 18:00:34 UTC 
See the screenshot.

The device notifier indicates that the device can be safely removed.

The icon used to display that is an alarming red cross that I would normally associate with error conditions.

Also the green tick sign on the other side does not really convey the fact that the drive can be safely removed. Without checking fstab, I would have said it was mounted.


Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Salvo "LtWorf" Tomaselli 2015-12-28 18:02:23 UTC 
Created attachment 96335 [details]
problematic icon
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2015-12-29 18:04:32 UTC 
I raised the issue again in the past but it was said that the cross means "you cannot use this device" and the tick means "you can" and my issue was dropped.

Nonetheless Device Notifier uses the "emblem" icon (the green tick to the right) as an action icon which is wrong. We need a dedicated "please mount this thing" action icon.
Comment 3 Kai Uwe Broulik 2017-08-25 14:08:14 UTC 
We have a dedicated "mount" icon now as well as less alarming mounted/not mounted emblems.