{"id":258,"date":"2010-06-21T10:01:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T07:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=258"},"modified":"2011-09-08T07:04:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T04:04:33","slug":"icons-ought-to-be-as-self-evident-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2010\/06\/21\/icons-ought-to-be-as-self-evident-as-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Icons ought to be as self-evident as possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would go further than the original report and say that the icons are pretty useless in themselves: an envelope with an arrow does&#8230; what? Email the status to somebody? And a set of gears&#8230; huh? Icons ought to be as self-evident as possible, and having to hover over them to see the tooltips to understand their meaning is a failure in the icons&#8217; design IMO.<\/p>\n<p>With most statuses being quite limited in length, there&#8217;s plenty of screen real estate available, so why not just use text indicators for each of the icon&#8217;s functions, such as &#8217;Reply&#8217; and &#8217;More&#8230;&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>(Hope I&#8217;m not making this sound too brash, I think Gwibber is an excellent tool and this is a minor annoyance.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d say the icons are pretty useless in themselves: an envelope with an arrow does&#8230; what? Email the status to somebody? And a set of gears&#8230; huh? Icons ought to be as self-evident as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[4008,2143],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-gwibber","tag-saavutettavuus","sijainti-launchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}