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IIRC it used to be all text. I remember feeling the same thing when they rolled out the icon only design and was frustrated that I had to relearn something I ha

by zawerf 8y ago

IIRC it used to be all text. I remember feeling the same thing when they rolled out the icon only design and was frustrated that I had to relearn something I had already been using daily (memory is fuzzy, it was many years ago). Now I am actually okay with it. For a product that is daily use, you get used to the icons fairly quick and am glad it doesn't take that much screen real estate. What I hated is that it inspired a lot of other products that are NOT meant for daily interaction to do the same thing. For example I probably only interact with the dropbox desktop client once every blue moon and they have icons that make no sense (First icon is two squares for opening Paper which I don't use. Next icon is a globe which is for opening the web ui. All I want to do is revert a file!).

koube 8y ago
Bitbucket has recently changed to an icon theme, with genius icons such as: 1. <> 2. </> 3. a one node graph 4. a three node graph 5. a two node digraph 6. the refresh symbol 7. an arrow pointing to a cloud 8. a page I have no idea what any of these mean and I hate it. Plus, it takes 8 seconds to load anything so if you click on the wrong one it's extra annoying. If anyone's curious, the answers are: 1. <>: source 2. </>: source, as far as I can tell it's the same button again 3. one node graph: commits 4. three node graph: branches 5. two node digraph: pull requests 6. refresh symbol: pipelines 7. array pointing to cloud: deployments 8. page: downloads
- lainga 8y ago
  Are there, at least, tooltips?
  - koube 8y ago
    Tooltips do come up but you have to put your mouse on the icon itself, if your mouse is on the enclosing button and the button is highlighted, the tooltip won't come up until you move the mouse to the icon itself.
  - Navarr 8y ago
    Yes, and by default the menu is expanded so that you see the words. Here it is shrunk (not default): https://i.imgur.com/liRIiHG.png https://i.imgur.com/liRIiHG.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/zTOooiS.png https://i.imgur.com/zTOooiS.png (right) Expanded: https://i.imgur.com/zj9P8d4.png https://i.imgur.com/zj9P8d4.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/Fv2irRH.png https://i.imgur.com/Fv2irRH.png (right)
    - koube 8y ago
      Holy crap, you just fixed bitbucket for me. I don't think I've ever shrunk that panel since I didn't even know how to do that, so I would think that the shrunk version is the default.
      - Navarr 8y ago
        Could be A/B testing I suppose - or I could be mistaken. Happy to have helped in some way :laughing:
      - TomK32 8y ago
        hit the `?` when you're on bitbucket.
    - AgentME 8y ago
      On some repositories I visit[0], it defaults to being shrunk. I didn't even recognize that the column of icons was supposed to be a menu. It took me over a half hour to figure out how to submit a pull request when I wanted to make a contribution. (I don't mean the time to figure out their code or build system. I mean the time spent clicking through the site after I had a branch ready.) [0] https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/craftbukkit/browse https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/craftbu.... I think they might be using their own hosted / reconfigured version of BitBucket, so maybe this isn't 100% on BitBucket?
- marksomnian 8y ago
  To be fair, some of the graph icons make at least some sense, if you see the nodes as Git commits (three node graph - diverging commits - new branch, two node digraph - combining commits - merging - pull request).
- tazjin 8y ago
  This reminds me of a t-shirt I got at some Atlassian event a few years ago. It says "You </> me" and I haven't the slightest clue what that means, but it looks cool.
  - arikrak 8y ago
    complete
    - bigiain 8y ago
      Found the Atlassian UX guy... <smirk>
  - chii 8y ago
    it could equally have been "you end me", and the meaning very different...
    - bigiain 8y ago
      Now I want one of those, with a stylised stab wound blood trickle dripping down from it. I'll wear it loud and proud at the cafe that's always got Atlassian devs in it round the block from here...
  - deleted 8y ago
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xfer 8y ago
There is an option to toggle it to text. I have been using it since the change.
ballenf 8y ago
Dropbox is a nightmare of icons. And they also "politicize" the icons by putting the Paper icon first. I'm sure their A/B testing is showing that everyone loves paper and uses more than any other feature. I've clicked on dozens of times in error and never found a use for it since I rarely interact with dropbox through the website. It's gone now, but remember the rainbow icon? That's how you got to recent file changes (not notifications). Even worse they removed that icon and the functionality entirely (seeing recent file changes across your entire dropbox in one place). I used it daily when I would accidentally move a dropbox folder or fat finger something else I needed to quickly revert.

by zawerf 8y ago

koube 8y ago

Bitbucket has recently changed to an icon theme, with genius icons such as: 1. <> 2. </> 3. a one node graph 4. a three node graph 5. a two node digraph 6. the refresh symbol 7. an arrow pointing to a cloud 8. a page I have no idea what any of these mean and I hate it. Plus, it takes 8 seconds to load anything so if you click on the wrong one it's extra annoying. If anyone's curious, the answers are: 1. <>: source 2. </>: source, as far as I can tell it's the same button again 3. one node graph: commits 4. three node graph: branches 5. two node digraph: pull requests 6. refresh symbol: pipelines 7. array pointing to cloud: deployments 8. page: downloads

lainga 8y ago
Are there, at least, tooltips?
- koube 8y ago
  Tooltips do come up but you have to put your mouse on the icon itself, if your mouse is on the enclosing button and the button is highlighted, the tooltip won't come up until you move the mouse to the icon itself.
- Navarr 8y ago
  Yes, and by default the menu is expanded so that you see the words. Here it is shrunk (not default): https://i.imgur.com/liRIiHG.png https://i.imgur.com/liRIiHG.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/zTOooiS.png https://i.imgur.com/zTOooiS.png (right) Expanded: https://i.imgur.com/zj9P8d4.png https://i.imgur.com/zj9P8d4.png (left) https://i.imgur.com/Fv2irRH.png https://i.imgur.com/Fv2irRH.png (right)
  - koube 8y ago
    Holy crap, you just fixed bitbucket for me. I don't think I've ever shrunk that panel since I didn't even know how to do that, so I would think that the shrunk version is the default.
    - Navarr 8y ago
      Could be A/B testing I suppose - or I could be mistaken. Happy to have helped in some way :laughing:
    - TomK32 8y ago
      hit the `?` when you're on bitbucket.
  - AgentME 8y ago
    On some repositories I visit[0], it defaults to being shrunk. I didn't even recognize that the column of icons was supposed to be a menu. It took me over a half hour to figure out how to submit a pull request when I wanted to make a contribution. (I don't mean the time to figure out their code or build system. I mean the time spent clicking through the site after I had a branch ready.) [0] https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/craftbukkit/browse https://hub.spigotmc.org/stash/projects/SPIGOT/repos/craftbu.... I think they might be using their own hosted / reconfigured version of BitBucket, so maybe this isn't 100% on BitBucket?
marksomnian 8y ago
To be fair, some of the graph icons make at least some sense, if you see the nodes as Git commits (three node graph - diverging commits - new branch, two node digraph - combining commits - merging - pull request).
tazjin 8y ago
This reminds me of a t-shirt I got at some Atlassian event a few years ago. It says "You </> me" and I haven't the slightest clue what that means, but it looks cool.
- arikrak 8y ago
  complete
  - bigiain 8y ago
    Found the Atlassian UX guy... <smirk>
- chii 8y ago
  it could equally have been "you end me", and the meaning very different...
  - bigiain 8y ago
    Now I want one of those, with a stylised stab wound blood trickle dripping down from it. I'll wear it loud and proud at the cafe that's always got Atlassian devs in it round the block from here...
- deleted 8y ago
  [deleted]

xfer 8y ago

There is an option to toggle it to text. I have been using it since the change.

ballenf 8y ago

Dropbox is a nightmare of icons. And they also "politicize" the icons by putting the Paper icon first. I'm sure their A/B testing is showing that everyone loves paper and uses more than any other feature. I've clicked on dozens of times in error and never found a use for it since I rarely interact with dropbox through the website. It's gone now, but remember the rainbow icon? That's how you got to recent file changes (not notifications). Even worse they removed that icon and the functionality entirely (seeing recent file changes across your entire dropbox in one place). I used it daily when I would accidentally move a dropbox folder or fat finger something else I needed to quickly revert.