Review Request 112688: Use more sensible icons for the toolbar

Sven Brauch svenbrauch at googlemail.com
Thu Sep 12 15:12:27 UTC 2013



> On Sept. 12, 2013, 3:06 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > File Attachment: Suggested new icons, with "group contacts" icon
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112688/#fcomment102>
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> >     While technically correct, this feels strange - it shows folders + aligned in a row, we have neither :S

I agree, but is that important? The important thing is that the user recognizes this as the "Group" icon. Which we have a chance for, since it's used for that in other places.
I mean the "Save" icon has a floppy disk too, and nobody uses floppy disks ;)


> On Sept. 12, 2013, 3:06 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > File Attachment: Suggested new icons, with "group contacts" icon
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112688/#fcomment103>
> >
> >     Not sure about this one either...I mean, I'm not sure what it's actually depicting :)

You're right, this one is indeed unclear. I'll come up with something better.


- Sven


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On Sept. 12, 2013, 2:20 p.m., Sven Brauch wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 12, 2013, 2:20 p.m.)
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> Review request for Telepathy.
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> Description
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> Use more sensbile icons for the toolbar. See screenshot. Main problems which I wanted to address:
>  * The "merge contacts" icon looks like it adds a contact.
>  * The "show grouped" icon is the "edit-group" icon which makes no sense and also looks weird
>  * The "show offline" icon is the "meeting-attending-tentative" which makes a) no sense and b) looks like it's disabled all the time.
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> Diffs
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>   main-widget.cpp 5f2557e 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/112688/diff/
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> Testing
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> Nothing breaks by changing icons, does it?
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> File Attachments
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> Suggested new icons, with "split group" icon
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/09/12/newicons.png
> Suggested new icons, with "group contacts" icon
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2013/09/12/newicons2.png
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> Thanks,
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> Sven Brauch
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