Summary of explorations for the Sidebar Collection/Checkbox icons

Previous discussions on the list

• At the beginning of 0.6, John and I went through several iterations of exploration in email, unfortunately it wasn't made public on the list. However, I do have some early mock-ups below from that round of experimentation.
• Philippe provides dogfooding feedback during 0.6: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2005-October/003334.html
• A second round of exploration: http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/design/2006-February/004131.html

Latest exploration

Proposal: Try both sets out on users for A/B testing.

• dotSeven_explorations.png:
  

Past explorations

Early explorations, pre 0.6 implementation

4 column option, proposed during the October 2005 thread

Davor suggests looking at how Eclipse and GIMP do it

• eclipse-breakpoint-view.png:
  

• eclipse-export-dialog.png:
  

• gimp-layers.png:
  

Zimbra's approach, also 4 columns

• 1027_calendar_therm.jpg:
  

3rd round of proposals put forth in February 2006 thread

Reid suggests getting rid of the separate checkbox state:

Priscilla proposes another 4 column design similar to Photoshop/GIMP:

That's the one I think I understand most (I do use Photoshop) -- MarcGibeault - 17 Apr 2006