- Status changed to Needs work
8 months ago 12:34pm 18 October 2023 - 🇺🇸United States tishmg
My input on wrench vs. gear: a wrench icon to me implies heavy work, like under construction, vs. a gear, which seems to imply a smoothly running machine. The gear seems to be a better fit for actively maintained to me. A wrench would seem to apply that the module needs a lot of work.
- 🇺🇸United States dblanken
I did not immediately get the impression that the gear or the wrench meant "maintained". I'm wondering if you can somehow convey it with a silhouette of a person to convey it's maintained by a person? Person with a hammer? Or the gear with a person silhouette inside?
- 🇺🇸United States MikeTullo
Hello! Just some UX two cents here. My initial thought with a gear icon is settings and with a shield icon is security. If we were to go in a different direction than these two I would suggest something with a person avatar that is either holding a tool or on a computer to indicate that there is a human maintaining this.
- 🇺🇸United States johnpicozzi Providence, RI
I'm going to be honest, I'm not sure if a wrench or a gear really matter. The larger issue is educating the user as to what the icons means. I have discussed not using a legend ( ✨ Improve iconography usability by adding a legend Needs work ) and adding a tool tip ( 🐛 Security and maintained icons require alt text, should not use title attribute Active ). I tend to agree that a wrench might be better than a gear based on the above comment of a gear being associated with settings.
- 🇦🇺Australia pameeela
I think this is a really, really hard thing to covey with an icon! It is interesting that there are people strongly in favour of both. I don't see either one as being very indicative, and agree with #25 that the icon itself probably won't achieve much either way.
Coming into this issue I did not know what the blue check icon meant either, but looking at PB I was able to determine from the filters that it means 'Covered by a security policy'. However, given that this is also a default filter, I am not sure the icon is a good idea? It will add clutter to the UI, considering that every module will have it by default. So I guess the use case is someone who selects 'Show all'?
I think it would probably be better to add an icon if it's *not* actively maintained, as this is something to alert users to. Otherwise, nothing to see here. And I see now this was already suggested in #2!
Screenshot of the filter for reference:
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