Usenet Explorer User's Manual/User Interface/Icons

This chapter explains the meaning of the various icons used in Usenet Explorer.

See also Explaining icons on the Usenet Explorer website.

Elements of Icons

Background Colors

• white background: single-part message
• green background: multi-part message
• yellow background: collection
• blue (magenta) background: ?

• grey upper half: incomplete multi-part message or incomplete collection
• red upper half: incomplete multi-part message that cannot be previewed because the first part is missing

Dashes

• lower part dashed: partly downloaded
• entirely dashed: completely downloaded

Checkmark

• checkmark: marked for download

Mini-Icons

Miniature icons in lower right corner of icons.

• grey oval with black dot: par2 recovery file
• grey "ear": par2 checksum file
• red/magenta/blue flag: rar file
• magenta rectangle with red corner: image file
• music note: audio file
• white rectangle with grey dot: pdf file

Workspace Icons

Servers tab

• black computer: server with no newsgroups attached
• green computer: server
• envelope: ?
• green dot: ?
• grey book: ?
• blue book with black asterix: ?
• blue book with black asterix and green dot: ?
• grey book with grey filter: