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ONGOING DEFAULT THEME CONTEST!!!
Llorean:
I don't know if the two rings / single ring is all that recognizable outside of whatever regions currently use it.
Wouldn't it be better to just have something like say, the word "Stereo" or "Mono"? Not everything needs to be an icon. We can take it from what we currently do in the radio screen.
Icons shouldn't really be used unless it's completely self-explanatory and if I saw it alternating between one ring and two rings as I scanned through the frequencies I probably wouldn't have any clue what it meant. If I was in an area where all the stations came in stereo, and I had presets, so I never saw the mono icon, I'd have no idea at all.
Ezraghast:
ZincAlloy's icons are very nice. I think using the cabbie 'shuffle' icon for scan and the 'stop' icon for presets, with a number embedded would tie in..
AlexP:
--- Quote from: Llorean on May 28, 2010, 04:27:13 PM ---I don't know if the two rings / single ring is all that recognizable outside of whatever regions currently use it.
Wouldn't it be better to just have something like say, the word "Stereo" or "Mono"? Not everything needs to be an icon. We can take it from what we currently do in the radio screen.
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I can only speak for myself, but I would say it is quite well known in the UK at least - I recognised it anyway :)
However, if it isn't universal then yes, maybe something explicit would be better.
Llorean:
I've never seen it before in my life. I don't know what that says about its universality, since I haven't watched much cable TV within the past few years.
Especially a single ring would mean nothing to me if I didn't have the dual rings to contrast it with. I personally would really prefer something more explicit.
The problem is, for me, that without introduction to what that icon means or good context (I could figure it out looking at both side by side because that immediately let me know both icons existed) a circle just has nothing to do with audio channels to me.
Vague Rant:
I'll throw in that I, an Australian, have never before seen the one/two rings icons either.
How would people feel about the sound channel graphics used on DVDs and such, which depict mono (), stereo (), way up to 9.2 channels ()? Examples taken from here (bonus, they're released under the GFDL):
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Multi-channel_sound
The only real issue with them I see (besides not knowing how deeply they've penetrated; does everybody know them?) is that they're kind of designed to represent many-channel sound and so just using them for mono/stereo may be a bit of a waste of real estate.
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