[OTR-users] New gaim-otr and otrproxy ready for beta testing

[Paul Wouters]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, CLAY SHENTRUP wrote:

> > As I mentioned, I'm hesitant to go with the "padlock" theme.
>
>
> I've never seen anything but a lock icon used to indicate encryption in any
> app,

That is because "treaditional" encryption only has "on" and "off" states. The
only other software I know (and use) that has "off", "private and unverified"
and "private and verified" is ssh. And it does not have icons. It does have a
big fat "are you sure you want to connect to this new key?".

> I think
> any icon other than some derivative of a lock would seem to defeath the
> purpose of having an icon at all. Just my opinion, but of course I'm not the
> developer. I'm curious to see what other users think.

The theme of a padlock just isn't right. Another theme I could think of is:
not private: showing a crowd of silhouettes
unverified: showing a single person's silhouette (with a question mark?)
verified: showing a single person in colour (with a "V" tick or whatever "friend/buddy"
          icon denotes 'friend' these days).

Paul