731459 - visited livemarks icons gets too much attention

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Attachment: ideas

it's a bit hard to distinguish visited from unvisited since both icons are quite bright, the visited icon should be less interesting for the user's eyes.

I put together some changes just to get an idea, though this are far from being final. The first one is current, the second one is the limit (already discarded but useful for the comparison), the third one adds opacity to background and border, the fourth one uses a border similar to the empty favicon.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

note that the opacity effect can easily be confused with "cut" nodes that indeed get some transparency.

Comment 2

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

Comment on attachment 601454 [details]
ideas

Yeah I think the second from the left (just waves, no box) works the best. Very nice, thank you! :)

Comment 3

[Christian Sonne [:cers]]

Attachment: livemark item icon sprite based on option 2

Comment 4

[Christian Sonne [:cers]]

Attachment: livemark item icon sprite based on option 2

removed odd artifact that apparently existed in the original icon.

Comment 5

[Stephen Horlander [:shorlander]]

Comment on attachment 601621 [details]
livemark item icon sprite based on option 2

Looks like the glow on the unread icon got darker: http://cl.ly/3p0c1V1v1A432e023E1J

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

Attachment: patch v1.0

Thanks to Christian and Stephen who looked into this.
Stephen made this final version that I'm attaching and reviewing (I just put together the patch).

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/4144d7075f9b

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4144d7075f9b