Siph wrote: Mon Jul 28, 2025 7:51 pm
So I’m not going to insist or anything because again ultimately it’s not a big deal, nor is it a deal breaker at all! But I still do think it feels counter-intuitive to me and it also goes against with the way letter icons have pretty much always been used skeumorphically in all software I’ve ever seen before.
Though I gotta say, if they were custom made, they do look pretty nice.
They were in fact made by one of our admins, Necrotext!
At some point, we could revisit their design. But for now, they are likely to stay.
Siph wrote: Sun Jul 27, 2025 10:27 am
[EXTREME NITPICKING] I’m using the 1982 theme and I’m a bit confused by the read/unread icons. The "read" icon is a closed letter and the "unread" icon is an open letter. Shouldn’t it be the other way around? Like, doesn’t it make sense that open letters are ones you’ve already read, while closed ones are ones you haven’t read yet?
This was brought up earlier in the thread but I'll quote my response then.
Me, back a page wrote:Our thought process on it was basically "Letter in the envelope indicates that there is something to read inside and the closed envelope is something you are done with in that you've read what was inside." Maybe not exactly how one would keep mail, but the letter in the envelope is more eye-catching as something new that you should look at versus the closed envelope.
We could swap them around, but I don't know if other people are also having this problem.
I admit it has caught me out as well. It's mostly just from a UI thing in general that a lot of mail apps follow the same logic of "closed = new". I've gotten used to it now, but yeah earlier on in use it did catch me a lot more
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