Have a nicer-looking icon for the Persistent Storage
What icon to use
Keeping in mind how the other icons in Favorites look like, as a sample of style:
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Right now we have:
I find it too flat and too gray in terms of style. The new design uses a padlock instead of a safe.
The padlock worked fine in usability test and is easier to depict open or close, which was important for the understanding of the encryption.
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@segfault implemented in !339 (closed):
I find it too detailed for an icon
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I only found 1 other icon in GNOME that has a padlock with some depth that we might be able to adapt:
Context of use
This icon should work in:
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The Applications menu to replace the gray safe icon:
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On the Welcome Screen when the Persistent Storage does not exist yet:
See https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/blueprints/-/wikis/Persistent-Storage-redesign#welcome-screen.
Maybe using the full image of the backpack is taking too much space or not the right visual treatment.
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On the Welcome Screen when the Persistent Storage already exists, both locked and open:
Currently, we have:
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The Places menu and sidebar of the Files browser (#18155 (closed))
Guidelines
- GNOME App Icons: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/app-icons.html
- GNOME UI Icons: https://developer.gnome.org/hig/guidelines/ui-icons.html