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Participate: Icons of KDE SC put to the test – KMail, part 2

December 30th, 2009 by Björn Balazs

Please invest 5 minutes of your precious time and participate in our little survey to improve the quality of the oxygen icon-set!

This time we are testing two small sets of 8 icons each used in the composer window of KMail and the “Message”-menu of the composer window. Thanks to Pierluca and Caig, the tests are available in English, German, Polish (improved, thanks to Andrzej!), Spanish  and from now on also in Italian! Perhaps you would like to help to make your language available as well? Or want to help to improve your language next time? Well, just write me a mail!

Click to start the test (maximum 5 minutes)

We will publish the main findings in our blog. If you are interested in the results in greater detail, please write me a mail.

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9 Responses to “Participate: Icons of KDE SC put to the test – KMail, part 2”

  1. Ubuntu-cl » Set de iconos oxygen puestos a prueba Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 19:32

    [...] Los resultados serán posteriormente publicados en http://www.opensource-usability-labs.com. Si desean enterarse de más detalles relacionados con esta actividad pueden acceder a la noticia original, aquí. [...]

  2. Kver Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 19:47

    On several questions I found no fitting icons. Such questions like “add new user” had literally no relevant icons.

  3. Fri13 Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 21:00

    @Kver

    I did not even see “Add new user” question. So are those random questions what users see or are all of them same?

  4. TvcTux Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 23:40

    Kmail rules!!!, with Evolution I can’t send mails through Hotmail (I know, Hotmail sucks), but I have no problem with Kmail. KDE is the best!!!
    (Sorry for my bad English XD )

  5. reg Says:
    December 31st, 2009 at 23:45

    Funny, I can’t run the test from akregator.

  6. User Says:
    January 1st, 2010 at 5:21

    I had trouble with a couple. I didn’t mentally connect any of the icons to the description, so i basically just picked on at random. ‘Send Mail via…’ was one of them. Unfortunately, I’m not really able offer a suggestion on improving. Maybe the email equivalent of having a sign that shows the UPS logo, FedEx logo and DLJ logo, whatever that would be.

  7. Ian Says:
    January 1st, 2010 at 11:25

    HI

    I also had a few problems matching a meaningful icon to an action. Here are the notes i made.

    Encrypt = locked padlock (decrypt = unlocked padlock)
    Send mail = parallelogram shaped envelope with go faster stripes
    Send later = parallelogram shaped envelope with clock
    Close = can’t see a useful icon
    Insert file = file icon with plus
    new window = can’t see a reason for this option

    regards

    Ian

  8. Segunda ecnuesta iconos para KMail | KDE Blog Says:
    January 4th, 2010 at 16:25

    [...] Con los resultados de la primera encuesta de KMail en el bolsillo, el equipos de usabilidad de Kmail inicia otra encuesta con el fin de mejorar la intuición a la hora de utilizar este gestor de correos. Participa siguiendo el siguiente enlace. [...]

  9. Björn Balazs Says:
    January 4th, 2010 at 20:33

    Sorry for the problems in akregator – see what we can do to make it work..

    Thanks for the other comments. It helps us a lot to create new and better icons :)

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