Reiniciando este tema cerrado:
Recientemente recibí un mensaje de un usuario TL3 que me dijo que nunca hacía clic en las categorías privadas porque pensaba que el candado significaba que no tenía acceso allí. Yo también me confundí la primera vez que lo vi.
Me gustó mucho este icono, ya que no hay forma de malinterpretarlo:
No estoy de acuerdo 
Nothing is stopping you using CSS to change it on your own personal instance.
There are far too many interpretations of ‘man in jacket with raised collar, hat and glasses’, are they a spy? a private investigator? a rogue agent? what’s their intent? The name FontAwesome uses is in itself cryptic, how do secrets apply to something that ranges from sensitive, private or just non-public.
In comparison there’s only one for a lock. There may be better, but I don’t think that’s it. Objects are always good, they serve a particular purpose, people on the other hand are much more vague and open to interpretation.
How about a good ol’ mask?
Nothing is stopping the Discourse developers to make default settings that are less confusing either.
I would hold off on anything here till the font awesome 5 upgrade is merged … there are more possible icons to choose from. I don’t see us changing core though any time soon.
From my perspective that’s good news, there are already significant numbers of deployments and huge numbers of users who have become acquainted with the current convention. As I said above there may be better options, but it’s almost too late in the day to bother with an incremental gain which has any potential to cause more fallout than benefit.
There are people who never seen nor used floppy disks yet click that icon every day to save their data. Most computers don’t include optical drives as standard now, let alone 3.5", but it’s still very much the norm. I use certain tablet apps which bear the trusty floppy disk icon, despite the two technologies never having intersected.
If the perfect icon which requires zero explanation appears that’s a different matter entirely, but let’s worry about perfect tomorrow, for now good enough is good enough.
I had one instance where we changed the icon to https://fontawesome.com/icons/unlock-alt?style=solid which was the default in the home page.
That’s a great example of tweak which eradicates any suggestion that the content is locked away from the user, without introducing additional uncertainty.
Aparentemente, esto sigue siendo un problema para al menos un cierto porcentaje de usuarios que no son veteranos. Los valores predeterminados de Discourse aún presentan este conflicto en la iconografía:
Tema cerrado: No tienes acceso y no puedes publicar aquí. Categoría disponible: Sí tienes (acceso especial) y puedes publicar aquí.… y recientemente he recibido varios informes de personas confundidas por los dos significados distintos para el mismo glifo.
¿Existe alguna forma sencilla de cambiar masivamente estos iconos (para las categorías reveladas) al icono de candado abierto?
Este componente de tema hace eso muy bien:
Parece mucho mejor. ¿Por qué no cambiar esto en el núcleo?
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