Active Settings refactoring done

[Fania Bremmer]

Am 04.01.2012 14:21, schrieb Marco Martin:
> On Wednesday 04 January 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>> Hej,
>>
>> On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 11:38:51 Fania Bremmer wrote:
>>> Am 01.01.2012 18:50, schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
>>>> As a test case for embedding a settings module directly into an app,
>>>> I've implemented an embedded settings module with the browser's
>>>> dashboard:
>>>>
>>>> Config button: http://wstaw.org/m/2012/01/01/plasma-desktopeT1657.png
>>> What I do not understand is the sandglass icon used for recently visited
>>> webpages. An icon referering to a webpage, url, or maybe even the
>>> thumbnails picture would be a lot better und understandable. Or maybe
>>> the favicon? I dont know whats technically feasable, but maybe we can
>>> find something more explanatory?
>> It's Oxygen's history icon, so semantically correct, but visually
>> misleading. I'll play around with using the webthumbnails there, but I'll
> I think the icon is correct.
> the metaphor is an unique symbol to say trace of user history, regardless of
> what it is.
> distinction of web history, file open history, whatever history is
> artificious.
> even more in active than anywhere else.

for me a sandglass stands for: time/duration flow (maybe from the old 
windows spinner), says something like "wait until the time is up".
"trace of user history" is maybe known by KDE users. I never saw that 
icon before, so I can only give first time impression feedback here. And 
this impression didnt connect to websites.

Same thing with the bookmark icon: in the browser its a star, in the add 
resource dialog its a heart. A heart stands for something that I like, 
that I voted for. We use it as a metaphor icon in SLC, for Like already. 
Adding a bookmarks is not the same action then. Then again rating 
(=liking) a bookmark is done with stars... so I guess we need to smooth 
these metaphors out.

I am currently preparing an overview of all the icons used so far in 
Plasma Active and we have some duplications for actions that are not the 
same...