[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Toolbar

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 03 October 2013 16:02:50 David Edmundson wrote:
> > ===  Appearance ===
> > * By default, represent tool bar buttons with icons only: Visual design
> > should stay for itself. But consider to show captions as well in case of
> > unusual functions or if users configure it.
> 
> This could be just:
> Do not change the QToolbar::toolButtonStyle from the default.
> 
> Also this is not the default currently. The default is text beside icons.
> 
> If this spec doesn't match what goes into Oxygen, we'll have two
> conflicting rules.
> People will take this as just "someone's vision on what KDE should be
> like" and not an agreed upon specification. If that happens this all
> becomes wasted, which we don't want.

Agreed: Developers should just use the default. If we think the default isn't 
good, we should make sure the default is changed instead of asking every 
developer to change the default.

> > * Use and design tool bar icons with special care. Users remember location
> > of an object but rely as well on icon properties.
> > * A distinct association between the underlying function and its visual
> > depiction is crucial. Follow the advices for
> > [[Projects/Usability/HIG/IconDesign|icon design]].
> > 
> > * Use small icons in standard applications and larger icons for tool
> > windows.
> 
> Do we do this?
> With my programmer hat on, again this should be left up to the QStyle
> and left alone by developers. The HIG will then be "don't change the
> icon sizes"

First of all: What exactly are tool windows?