Closed
Bug 1183601
Opened 9 years ago
Closed 9 years ago
Switch to Material Design iconography
Categories
(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Theme and Visual Design, defect)
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Theme and Visual Design
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: tech4pwd, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build ID: 20150513191204 Steps to reproduce: We're using the pre-MD icons, let's switch over to the Material Design icons.
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Updated•9 years ago
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Paul, do you have specific examples on where we can improve? I can see: * 3-dot menu should be round dots * Tabs tray button should have less dimensionality * Using system "x" button (which is an X surrounded by a circle) * System-themed check boxes in 3-dot menu (maybe surrounded w/ orange?) * If some tabs tray icons change (e.g. menu), some others may need tho change to fit in (e.g. plus) We should be careful to keep our differentiation from Chrome, I think (e.g. don't just drop in their tabs tray button).
Blocks: 1098596, fennec-polish
Flags: needinfo?(pwd.mozilla)
Comment 2•9 years ago
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I think this bug's scope is too big. Material designs' icon pack is offered as a starting point, rather than an end game. Our iconography is part of our brand and it's quite a strong one. If you read Material guidelines, they're also encouraged. There are places in our UI currently where we use old stock icons so I propose that we start there. We should start with the Action Bar that gets triggered on long-press. There are the cut, copy, paste icons in there.
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Comment 3•9 years ago
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Changing our system icons isn't a big deal here, while I appreciate the importance of the brand, when Firefox for Android launched, it launched as Native Firefox. We've stagnated in that regard and as a result we're now shipping a product that feels dated because of minor oversights like the one highlighted by this bug. Yes I appreciate the guidelines, but if you dogfood Fennec it feels like a third-rate guest. We can match most of our system icons like for like, where Google has provided a minor tweak on how the buttons feel such as rounding off corners. * 3-dot/kebab/overflow menu needs switching to the modern aesthetic * tabs tray icon is fine * They provide a simple slightly tweaked X without the circle * Contextual toolbar buttons (select all, copy, cut, paste, etc) need updating * AwesomeScreen buttons (scan, microphone) The goal here should be to create the best native experience. Little tweaks like these facilitate that.
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After playing with bug 1189272, our 3-dot menu looks really dated and I figured it'd be a good first step - Anthony, can I get new 3-dot menu icon assets? Alternatively, I can try to copy it from the Android resources (or one of their sample apps).
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Flags: needinfo?(alam)
Anthony pointed me to the 3-dot asset [1] and suggested I send him a build. NI self. Concerns are the Material 3-dot doesn't open a Material menu. :( Another area for improvement would be the text selection action bar icons. [1]: https://www.google.com/design/icons/#ic_more_vert
Flags: needinfo?(alam) → needinfo?(michael.l.comella)
Looks pretty good, imo. :) Let me get you a build...
Flags: needinfo?(michael.l.comella)
Attachment #8645252 -
Flags: feedback?(alam)
As a prototype, this only works on L+ & phones: https://people.mozilla.com/~mcomella/apks/mcomella-1183601_01.apk
Flags: needinfo?(alam)
Comment 8•9 years ago
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Comment on attachment 8645252 [details] Material 3-dot I think this looks good. I like it but I feel like if we update this icon, we should give the user more reason to care about this change (i.e. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1140169). Especially since the only logical thing to do after noticing this icon change would be to get excited and press it :)
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Flags: feedback?(alam) → feedback+
Comment 9•9 years ago
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thoughts on the slightly increased scope?
Flags: needinfo?(michael.l.comella)
(In reply to Anthony Lam (:antlam) from comment #9) > thoughts on the slightly increased scope? I like the refined menu and the scope creep isn't too large – I'll continue this work in bug 1140169.
Flags: needinfo?(michael.l.comella)
(In reply to Michael Comella (:mcomella) from comment #10) > I like the refined menu and the scope creep isn't too large – I'll continue > this work in bug 1140169. Didn't realize this was a meta – bug 1148550.
Comment 12•9 years ago
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I think this is done now.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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Updated•3 years ago
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Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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