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Recentemente ho ricevuto un messaggio da un utente TL3 che mi ha detto di non aver mai cliccato sulle categorie private perché pensava che il lucchetto indicasse che non aveva accesso lì. Anche io sono rimasto confuso la prima volta che l’ho visto.
Mi è piaciuto molto questo’icona, perché non c’è modo di fraintenderla:
Con tutto il rispetto, non sono d’accordo 
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.
Sembra che questo sia ancora un problema per almeno una certa percentuale di nuovi utenti. Le impostazioni predefinite di Discourse presentano ancora questo conflitto nell’iconografia:
Argomento chiuso: Non hai accesso e non puoi pubblicare qui. Categoria disponibile: Hai accesso (speciale) e puoi pubblicare qui.… e recentemente ho ricevuto alcune segnalazioni di utenti confusi dai due significati diversi associati allo stesso glifo.
Esiste un modo semplice per modificare in blocco queste icone (per le categorie visibili) nell’icona di apertura?
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Sembra molto meglio. Perché non cambiare questo nel core?
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