I HATE the lack of protocol icons

Chris Forsythe chris at growl.info
Tue Jun 12 12:04:22 EDT 2007


Etan Reisner wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:47:00AM -0700, Sean Egan wrote:
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>>I guess the metaphor to a traffic light isn't as obvious as I think it
>>is. We have a "green light" for "I'm available for you to talk to me"
>>and a "do not enter" for "I'm busy, please leave me alone." I think
>>these are great.
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>I very much see the 'green circle' == 'traffic light' metaphor, the
>problem is that a traffic light doesn't say 'available' it says 'go' or
>'drive' (or 'stop' if you are walking across that street).
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I don't see how a feather says that either. I think a green circle says 
"available" more than a feather does.

Chris




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