{"id":21,"date":"2012-02-25T02:29:20","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-02-25T02:29:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T02:29:20","slug":"mystifying-edit-icon-at-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Mystifying edit icon at Launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I work with Launchpad<\/a> every now and then, and today, I wondered why the little yellow icons that are supposed to mean “edit” look the way they do. <\/p>\n

Here is an example of what I mean: \""This<\/p>\n

Many months ago, when I was figuring out how to use Launchpad, I remember hovering my mouse pointer over icons and other screen elements systematically, trying to discover how to change and edit certain things in a project page. And it was a true revelation to discover that the button meant ‘edit’. Actually, I think it looks like a shoe-print. <\/p>\n

I had a look around today to see if anyone else had the same confusion, and there is a bug report ‘”Edit” icon is difficult to recognize’<\/a>. Actually, the icon is supposed to be a pencil. If I try really hard, I can see the pencil. But otherwise, I still see a shoe. I don’t really see it as an exclamation point (!) as other people noted, since those are vertical, not slanted. It’s a little amusing that the bug has been open 3+ years, and no change has been made. A survey was done on launchpad icons, which indicated a “high level of understanding” that the shoe meant “edit”, but also “danger”. If the surveyed were Launchpad users, this should be unsurprising. What do the uninitiated users see? <\/p>\n

We’ve known about this for three years. Since nobody with the power to change it thinks it’s worth fixing, my hope is that it gets fixed accidentally when Launchpad does a visual refresh, which might happen in a few years. Until then, I can continuue to enjoy sounding like a guru when I tell people that it’s an ‘edit’ button and they say ‘What? Really? I wouldn’t have guessed.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I work with Launchpad every now and then, and today, I wondered why the little yellow icons that are supposed to mean “edit” look the way they do. Here is an example of what I mean: Many months ago, when … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperfectcode.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}