Ubuntu
human-icon-theme package

  1. Bug #73023
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 73023

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Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

I want to stress that this bug is so much of a problem that most Howto and wiki now explain how to change the emblems.

I don't discuss the I-like-or-not fact, I insist that it's about usability. I've exactly the same issue as the original reporter. The Human icon them is not "usable" anymore. Emblems are not a feature anymore, just dead code.

I really like the coloured proposition.

I want to bring some illustration to this concept with the (wonderful) NautilusSVN plugin.

If you install it on Ubuntu, it's simply not usable :
http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2007/11/06/nautilus-svn-and-new-emblems/

You have to follow the tricky howto and to download original TortoiseSVN icons in order to make it works, which is a shame.

In several cases I know, migrating an user from Windows to Linux was a not-so-good experience *only because of this*. All was perfect then, when they ask for a Tortoise equivalent and I installed NautilusSVN, they said : "This is not usable". If I install the icons "Wow, Linux is so tricky. It's only for geeks".

Those are tiny details we should really avoid in Ubuntu.