335873 - "Unable to verify the identity" dialogue should use warning icon rather than red X

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Security, defect)

Description

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

"(X) The certificate could not be verified for unknown reasons" in the "Unable to verify the identity" security dialogue should use the little /!\ warning icon (currently also the favicon for error pages) instead of the "X in a red circle" because

1) We use that "X in a red circle" visual metaphor for the stop button, not anything else, and the security dialogue usage of that icon is not in a literal stop context (use the url above to see the dialogue)

2) It looks too much like a (tab-)close button; my first instinct is to click on the red X to close something.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Attachment: Dialogue in question

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

FWIW, that looks an awful lot like the standard build error icon in Xcode.

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Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> FWIW, that looks an awful lot like the standard build error icon in Xcode.

And that's relevant how?  That dialogue is not shown in response to a build error, and Camino users are not going to be familiar with Xcode iconography anyway.  They may, however, be familiar with the error page favicon....

Comment 4

[Stuart Morgan]

(In reply to comment #2)
> FWIW, that looks an awful lot like the standard build error icon in Xcode.

It also looks an awful lot like the icon used in the standard OS cert UI (compare with Safari's cert view for the same site), which was presumably the point.

Comment 5

[Stuart Morgan]

Removing relation to bug 107491; this is about an icon in Camino-specific UI, which is unrelated to Core messages.

Also WONTFIXing.  If anything it should look more like the system cert UI (using SecurityInterface's InvalidBadge.tif rather than the current Broken Symbol.tif, but that would be a different bug), not less.