1103616 - Gear / cog icons are mechanically incorrect

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Jeremiah Lee]

Attachment: mozilla-firefox-33.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141113143407

Steps to reproduce:

Open the "Library" window, Add-ons Manager, tiles start page, or side panel (default arrangement).


Actual results:

The gear icons (as of Firefox 33.1.1) are mechanically poor or impossible.


Expected results:

If the point is to illustrate how things work together, we should use gears that could actually work together.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Pretty much any of those 'gear' icons would work fine, mechanically speaking, if you think of them as a sectional view of a splined shaft. Splines come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and of course don't have the intermeshing requirements that gears do.

Comment 2

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Resolving per in-person consensus. Reopen if UX feels strongly!