qreator-discuss team mailing list archive

[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Al 21/11/12 14:49, En/na Stefan Schwarzburg ha escrit:
> Hi David,
> 
> 
>     I like your symbolic icon, thanks! The only piece of feedback that I
>     have is that if we were to ship custom symbolic icons, I'd make them
>     monochrome as the rest of the application's icons.
> 
> Then I think it would be better to change the icon, because a colorwheel
> without color would not be recognizable. :-)

Indeed, but I think I've found a suitable icon now, see below.

>  
> 
>     Let me add part of the reply I sent with the merge proposal:
> 
>     I do want to have symbolic icons in there, and your help would be really
>     appreciated. However, and even though I started creating some icons
>     myself (see [1]), I see it more as a low priority, as the things to get
>     ready for the release start piling up.
> 
>     My only concern with shipping custom icons is that we're effectively
>     hardcoding them: we'll make them so that they resemble the default
>     symbolic theme, but if the style of the theme changes in the next Ubuntu
>     release, we'd need to change them too.
> 
>     One added issue is that since the icons that we'd ship would have to be
>     loaded as images instead of icons from the standard theme path, they
>     would look slightly different from the rest of the icons on other
>     buttons.
> 
> 
> OK
>  
> 
>     One thing is colour (the symbolic icons' colour is loaded from the theme
>     settings, which we'd have to emulate by hardcoding that colour into our
>     icons, see some background here [2]). In my experience the other is size
>     (last time I tried, images in buttons were smaller than same-sized
>     icons).
> 
> 
> I would think that having color on a few selected icons might still be
> ok, but maybe that misses the purpose of symbolic icons...
>

Yeah, I do think it's valid to use some colour to highlight some
particular icons (similar to what the Ubuntu indicators do to indicate
status, but we might want to highlight important functions).

> 
>     So my recommendation would be to leave custom symbolic icons for now
>     (except for perhaps looking again at those from the theme, to see if we
>     can indeed find appropriate ones for the color selection and swap
>     actions), and revisit them after release. Does that make sense?
> 
> 
> Sure, lets do it that way.
> 

Ok, thanks a lot for the input.

I think I've actually found an icon for the trickiest one: the colour
selector:

1. preferences-color-symbolic (main icon)
2. applications-graphics-symbolic (alternative)

I've chosen 1. as it's thought for that particular purpose (select
colours), but I think some people might find 2. more attractive,
although it has no direct relationship with the action. Thoughts?

For anyone interested, this small script was extremely useful to filter
out non-symbolic icons and browse through the symbolic ones:
http://blogs.gnome.org/danni/2009/09/22/quick-and-dirty-icon-theme-viewer/
(code lives now on https://github.com/danni/icon-theme-viewer)

I'll start looking for an icon for the swap action now. I've got one
candidate, but I'm not too convinced:

- media-playlist-shuffle-symbolic

Apart from the fact that has no direct relationship with the action,
it's an icon made out of lines, and I'd like it to be more like a
pictogram. Otherwise it looks too similar to the 'Reset to defaults'
action. /me keeps looking...

Cheers,
David.

> Cheers,
> Stefan
> 
>  
> 
>     Cheers,
>     David.
> 
>     [1]
>     http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/qreator/color-editor/view/99/data/media/color-selection-symbolic.svg
>     (despite of the name, I think this icon should be more suitable for the
>     'swap colors' button)
>     [2]
>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/148955/why-do-the-gnome-symbolic-icons-appear-darker-in-a-running-application/

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature