The custom and control icons in the top right corner of the chrome should be chrome icons to indicate that this is the custom and control of the Chrome browser

[轻风飘影]

The custom and control icons in the top right corner of the chrome should be chrome icons to indicate that this is the custom and control of the Chrome browser

[PhistucK]

Why? One of the goals of Chrome is/was to be perceived as native as possible (barring technical restrictions, brand and usability designs) to the platform. Having custom control icons would be unfamiliar or confusing to the user.

☆PhistucK

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:06 AM, 轻风飘影 <qfpy67...@gmail.com> wrote:

The custom and control icons in the top right corner of the chrome should be chrome icons to indicate that this is the custom and control of the Chrome browser

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[dreakan]

Uh.... although the phrasing is not perfect, you do realize what the OP is suggesting is to use the Chrome logo instead of the 3 dots for the top right menu, also known as the Customize and control Google Chrome icon, to indicate this button is to customize Chrome.

It's actually a pretty good idea.

3 lines or 3 dots icon has always been a serious problem, and no one would initially expect that means to customize and control Chrome.

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[PhistucK]

Oh.

In that case - that icon has become a pretty standard icon for settings/menus/more, so I do not see a problem with it nowadays (beside the lack of way to name it when you remotely instruct someone to use it, but that almost never happens anyway).

It is not common to have the application icon at the top right corner and that it would show a menu.

On Windows, as part of the old ribbon design, you had an application icon at the top left corner (though that took quite a lot of real estate).

Also, having that icon at the top right corner would resemble the designs of old browsers where the icon of Internet Explorer or Netscape would show up animating in order to indicate that the browser is loading something (back when there were no tabs, only windows).

It would, also, perhaps be confusing for the user if they had extensions, because they would show up as icons next to that icon.

I am not feeling strongly about it, but it sounds like extra clutter.

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