Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Ferris icons are nearly indistinguishable #3906

Open
InSyncWithFoo opened this issue Apr 29, 2024 · 2 comments
Open

Ferris icons are nearly indistinguishable #3906

InSyncWithFoo opened this issue Apr 29, 2024 · 2 comments

Comments

@InSyncWithFoo
Copy link

To me, the Ferris icons look more or less the same. The differences (the small mouth, the question mark, the positions of the claws) are almost negligible compared to the similarities (the big spiky red body, the chibi eyes with their pupils, the legs).

Could they be made a bit more distinguishable?

To propose a solution, each of the icons can be linked to a symbol, which would be clearly displayed (maybe even repeated) above Ferris:

  • ? for "compilation error"
  • ! for "runtime error" ("panic")
  • # for "logic error"
@chriskrycho
Copy link
Contributor

Interesting suggestion! Compilation error Ferris already has a ?, so I can see the value of having it on the others. That said, it’s a fairly low priority given it is also a kind of “progressive enhancement”: a nice clue, but not something that is actually necessary. (The print copy doesn’t have Ferris there at all!)

@bartonstanley
Copy link

FWIW, I'm just starting out, and I've been ignoring those icons because it's hard to tell them apart and even when I look at them closely, I don't remember what they mean. I'm not convinced they add anything.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Projects
None yet
Development

No branches or pull requests

3 participants