Bug 462374 - Better Hibernate icon
Summary: Better Hibernate icon
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: visual-design
URL:
Keywords: usability
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-11-28 23:20 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2024-03-16 16:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Need to add Zs, but is this concept okay? (111.52 KB, image/svg+xml)
2022-11-29 13:33 UTC, Narayan Dutt Purohit
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attachment-10486-0.html (1.05 KB, text/html)
2022-11-29 15:36 UTC, Narayan Dutt Purohit
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Slightly more descriptive hibernate icon. (20.75 KB, image/svg+xml)
2023-11-08 08:40 UTC, Mira
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Same, but more circle-oriented (17.61 KB, image/svg+xml)
2023-11-08 14:24 UTC, Mira
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In a mockup. (41.07 KB, image/png)
2023-11-08 14:25 UTC, Mira
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Description Nate Graham 2022-11-28 23:20:10 UTC
Right now this icon is a snowflake with Zs coming out of it. I think the intention was to conjure up the imagery of a bear hibernating for the winter (hence the snowflake, since it snows in winter) but this might be too subtle. Also a snowflake icon is often uses do mean "air conditioning" these days, which can't be helping things. My wife and mother independently complained about this icon recently, and both also independently came up with the idea of the icon being a sleeping bear with Zs over it.
Comment 1 Narayan Dutt Purohit 2022-11-29 07:03:16 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #0)
> Right now this icon is a snowflake with Zs coming out of it. I think the
> intention was to conjure up the imagery of a bear hibernating for the winter
> (hence the snowflake, since it snows in winter) but this might be too
> subtle. Also a snowflake icon is often uses do mean "air conditioning" these
> days, which can't be helping things. My wife and mother independently
> complained about this icon recently, and both also independently came up
> with the idea of the icon being a sleeping bear with Zs over it.

Instead of sleeping bear, we simply put KDE Mascot in sleeping position with Zs?
Comment 2 Narayan Dutt Purohit 2022-11-29 13:33:03 UTC
Created attachment 154136 [details]
Need to add Zs, but is this concept okay?
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2022-11-29 15:15:15 UTC
Interesting idea, but I think it needs to be a bear. Bears hibernate; cartoon dragons don't. Or do they? Maybe? But there's no association with dragons and hibernating. If we use an asleep cartoon dragon with Zs, that looks like sleep, not hibernation.
Comment 4 Narayan Dutt Purohit 2022-11-29 15:36:47 UTC
Created attachment 154141 [details]
attachment-10486-0.html

Ya..it could be mistaken for sleep. Let me think and get creative with
konqui.

On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 8:45 PM Nate Graham <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org>
wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462374
>
> --- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <nate@kde.org> ---
> Interesting idea, but I think it needs to be a bear. Bears hibernate;
> cartoon
> dragons don't. Or do they? Maybe? But there's no association with dragons
> and
> hibernating. If we use an asleep cartoon dragon with Zs, that looks like
> sleep,
> not hibernation.
>
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Comment 5 Mira 2023-11-08 08:40:33 UTC
Created attachment 162943 [details]
Slightly more descriptive hibernate icon.

How about a slightly more descriptive alternative? I hope SATA discs aren't like new the new diskettes though. :)
Comment 6 Mira 2023-11-08 14:24:15 UTC
Created attachment 162950 [details]
Same, but more circle-oriented

Sorry for the small size - I just used inkscape's size template.
Comment 7 Mira 2023-11-08 14:25:21 UTC
Created attachment 162951 [details]
In a mockup.