2005/10/16, mf mf@mufunyo.net:
Mikko,
You are on the very edge of making me feel VERY undervalued and misunderstood. I wrote this article because there are simply TOO_MANY_PEOPLE that *THINK* they can make icons and walk around with a big fat question mark printed on their face when I try to explain why something thrown together in MSPAINT.EXE in 10 seconds is not worth ReactOS' time. You are not the one dealing with these people. And if my simple wish to have a consistent look is arrogance, so be it. YOU go make those goddamn icons and deal with these people, because quite frankly, I am getting pretty pissed off at the fact that there are so many steermen on shore here. It's so crowded, I think you might need to take turns at the helm if you went on board.
Sincerely, mf.
Well, quite frankly, you could do that a WHOLE lot nicer way. If you have to state publicly that if you are not professional stay away or get bashed then you are heading the wrong way. You could have wrote simple instructions for the people wanting to help, instead you wrote how good you are, how much you have done and how you are going to bash anyone who tries to submit anything. No matter how I watch that it just isn't constructive. You could have proposed something like icon submission board where certain people could just vote if they like certain icon or not, ergo making your life easier, but again you didn't.. You just decided to bash the people who are TRYING to help.
Now, on to the trashcan: No, I am not talking about looks. I think they look ok for now. To be more on the point, that is the same exact mistake Apple did while ago. (Yes, they make mistakes) The problem here lies in psychology; The trashcan displays an state of immediate explosion even though single text document would be placed in it, so natural response would be to empty the trash hence disabling the very function of trash can: undo. Plus, it changes the single step function (delete) to two step function (delete, empty trash).
-mikko