Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Icon Poll - is this OK?

[Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Eric Wedel <Eric.Wedel@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the graphics.
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> Funny, on the text-only poll I voted for record/stop, as this is intuitively
> correct.
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> [One can get in trouble for playing packets back into a live network. :-) ]
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> But it seems that the record button (small red dot on a large button)
> doesn't
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> transfer well to the screen, looking instead like an indicator light.

I think this is indicative of the fact that we have two separate questions here:
- Which metaphor should we use?
- What should the icons look like given a specific metaphor?

This is why I didn't include icons on my original poll - I was trying
to answer the first, not the second. That poll (although the sample
size was fairly small) indicates a strong preference for the
record/stop metaphor. Perhaps we just need to take a closer look at
what icon we use to indicate 'record'?

Evan