RFC: replace the current Contour Icon in the upper corner through a proper icon

Fania Bremmer fania.bremmer at basyskom.de
Tue Nov 1 14:36:13 UTC 2011



Am 27.10.2011 22:36, schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 21:17:08 Anton Kreuzkamp wrote:
>> I must say, an activity-related icon would mean to me "Go to my Activity".
>> But that's wrong.
> conceptually there is no difference between "the current activity" and the
> activity view. they are for all intents and purposes synonymous. trying to
> draw a difference is to get lost in technical details that are probably
> unceptualizable through normal usage.
>
>> So, what the icon has to say is "Go to my Activity's
>> Homescreen" and the best icon for it is imho the house-icon.
> personally i'm fine wih a "home" icon, though it's a rather overloaded
> metaphore by now.
>
> from a design (as opposed to usability) perspective, it is very mundane and
> takes away something of the "cool" factor by its mundanity.
>
> but perhaps it will test very well with users. there's only one to tell, and
> changing the icon is very simple. it's in:
>
> plasma-mobile/qmlpackages/contour-tablet-
> homescreen/contents/ui/SlidingDragButton.qml

I created a bug for this home icon: *Bug 285473* 
<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285473>
Or can I test it already (on MeeGo) currently?



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