323625 - Camino's Toolbar Icons do not conform to Apple HIG

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Toolbars & Menus, defect)

Description

[Kroc Camen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050919 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Camino Beta 1

The toolbar Icons of Camino, particularly back/forward and refresh do not conform to Apple HIG's recommendation that icons should be recognisable from their outline and not subtle colour differences. See figure 10.5 of this page http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGIcons/chapter_14_section_2.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000967-TPXREF117

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Camino
2. ???
3. Profit!



Expected Results:  
Camino's back/forward and refresh icons should be distinguishable from their outlines.

Comment 1

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

/me laughs

I'm pretty sure this is a wontfix. :)

Go open script editor and come back here to discuss.

Comment 2

[Jasper]

The AHIG is a guideline which can be used, it's not a lawbook. If there is a company which makes software that break the AHIG guidelines all the time it's Apple!

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

yeah, have you seen mail.app on Tiger? Every button is round!

I see your point, but we tried going down that road and just couldn't come up with anything good.