GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 147891
gweather applet icon for snow is confusing
Last modified: 2006-08-19 20:49:29 UTC
Comment from Fedora: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=117769 The weather applet icon for snow is a four pointed cross, but snowflakes have a six-way symmetry so the icon is confusing and non-intuitive.
hi, http://sickpeople.wmc-allstars.com/law/files/snow.patched.xpm perhabs this is more realistic :-).
Created attachment 29898 [details] [review] new icon Attaching icon here in case the URL goes away
"patch" - High :)
Is this still relevant? We use a similar icon from the icon theme.
CCing Jimmac
There's not enough detail to say how the git icon's snowflake looks ;) I'd form an investigation group to analyse it and figure out if it gets the point across or not. That's how the czech parliament does it and works marvelously, come for a visit.
Over here we call it a Royal Commission. I suspect it's the same old cat, in the same expensive bag.
*** Bug 164680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 166292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm reassigning to gnome-icon-theme since this is where the icon lives. I kinda agree that this is a bug, you can definitely tell by looking at the icon that the snowflake has 4 branches. I guess this may be more important to people who live in places that see a lot of snow (or people who study those things :-)
Created attachment 36997 [details] current snow icon (stock_weather-snow.png)
Snowflakes don't have any guaranteed symmetry. They are randomized crystaline structures. Should we just generated the icon from code which randomizes the crystal structure of the snowflakes? The current icon is fairly obviously a snowflake, in it's own individualist snow flake-like nature, as no two are alike. Does anyone have a better icon to propose? The cloud with "snowflakes" is not appropriate I think. I'll leave this open for a while, and if nobody can offer a better icon, then I'll close it as wontfix.
Created attachment 39355 [details] Proposal: replacement for the snowflake icon I've had the dubious pleasure of having had to see that snowflake almost every day for the past two months, so I felt compelled to make a replacement. The number of arms in a snowflake arise from the hexagonal crystal structure of the water molecules. There are other phases of ice, including a cubic phase, but you don't see them at normal pressure and temperature. So I would say finding a four-armed flake is very very hard indeed.
I like it. Please add my vote for this replacement icon. BTW The common six-way symmetric snowflakes are known as "stella dendrites" according to this reference: http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/
It is now a cloud with snow falling from it.