import/export bundle icons are ambiguous

Bug #1276458 reported by Dustin Kirkland 
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
juju-gui
Triaged
Low
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Bug Description

We often confuse the import/export icons on the JujuCharms gui. I see an "up" arrow, and I think "upload". I see a "down" arrow, and think "download".

Turns out, their meaning is exactly opposite that. Somehow, the "up" arrow means, "export", and the "down" arrow means "import".

I suggest a different set of icons. Something like the following would be far more intuitive...

http://openclipart.org/image/300px/svg_to_png/180895/import.png
http://openclipart.org/image/300px/svg_to_png/180890/export.png

I've made this mistake in front of customers a couple of times. They laughed, and agreed, that it was indeed ambiguous.

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Luca Paulina (lucapaulina) wrote :

Hi Dustin,

The icons were designed by our icon designer and they conform to canonical icon standards and rules. However, we have requested new icons to be designed to bring them inline with the new set of platform icons that will be rolled out and I'll pass along this feedback.

Thanks,

Luca

Changed in juju-gui:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Peter Petrakis (peter-petrakis) wrote :

I get confused by the arrow convention too. Maybe keep the arrows but add a tool tip?

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Matt Bruzek (mbruzek) wrote :

An Export Bundle saves the export.yaml on my system. I think of that as a Download, the convention for download icons is an arrow pointing down.

https://www.google.com/search?q=download&source=lnms&tbm=isch

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Matt Bruzek (mbruzek) wrote :

The Import Bundle implies you are uploading a bundle from your system. I would expect to see a arrow pointing upward for this operation.

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