Calligra (Sheets) program icon inconsistencies

Friedrich W. H. Kossebau kossebau at kde.org
Wed May 2 16:07:38 BST 2012


Am Mittwoch, 2. Mai 2012, 16:59:12 schrieb C. Boemann:
> On Wednesday 02 May 2012 16:10:31 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > ((__Missing icon in About dialog for Calligra Sheets__))
> > 
> > in master the program icon set in the code (implicitely by KAboutData) for
> > Calligra sheets is wrong (KAboutData uses the first ("appName") parameter
> > to KAboutData, unless overwritten with "setProgramIconName(...)").
> > So it is "sheets", not "kspread", see e.g. the "About Calligra Sheets"
> > entry in the "Help" submenu (culprit code in sheets/part/AboutData.h).
> > 
> > I assume the correct fix would be to change the names of all the
> > 
> > 	sheets/data/pics/*kspread.png
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > 	sheets/data/pics/*sheets.png
> > 
> > and adapt any usages of "kspread" as icon id/name to "sheets" (like in the
> > .desktop files). Guess that needs to be backported to 2.4 as well.
> > 
> > Shall I provide a patch for that?

Okay, so will not do any patch for now.

> > ((__General icon/logo (style) mismatch between programs and website__))
> > 
> > But:
> > looking at the icon (names) of the other Calligra programs I also wonder:
> > 
> > Why does the Words program icon have a new/other style than e.g. Stage and
> > Sheets? Are there no updated icons for Stage and Sheets as well?
> 
> Nope only Words have an updated icon yet. Well Krita has too but somehow
> it's not installed
> 
> > And why again do all icons look different from the program icons/logo on
> > http://calligra.org/ ?
> 
> You mean the plate they are on. Yes I don't like that at all either.

Originally I meant those on calligra.org/{sheets,words,stage}. But right, on 
the front page is even another logo :)

> > Those seem to be the icon/logo still from the latest KOffice design
> > update,
> > and for that reason are also used on http://koffice.org/, not perfect.
> 
> Not at all be Work is being done to fix this.

Very good, thanks for the info, so I will remove this issue from my attention 
for now :)

Cheers
Friedrich



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