[Fwd: [kde-artists] Icons for: FitToPage, FitToWidth, & FitToHeight revisited]

[James Richard Tyrer]

At the suggestion of Olivier Goffart, I am forwarding this question to
the usability developers for comments and possible resolution.

-- 
JRT


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [kde-artists] Icons for: FitToPage, FitToWidth,	& FitToHeight
revisited
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 15:10:13 -0700
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org>
To: kde-artists at kde.org

We have the 3 KDE Standard Actions:

	FitToPage
	FitToWidth
	FitToHeight

for which I made KDE3 icons for CrystalSVG & HiColor (HiColor is
installed as KDEClassic).  In KDE3 they are named:

	view_fit_window
	view_fit_width
	view_fit_height

See attached KDEClassic.

I was originally going to rename these (KDE4 names):

	view-fit-window
	view-fit-width
	view-fit-height

But was persuaded that they should be called:

	zoom-fit-best
	zoom-fit-width
	zoom-fit-height

This appears to have been an error and we should rethink it.

We also had the KDE3 icons:

	viewmag+
	viewmag-
	viewmag

See attached KDEClassic

The first two were renamed:

	zoom-in
	zoom-out

and, therefore, the third should logically be named:

	zoom

This results in a (possibly) valid issue that if an icon: "zoom-fit-*"
is not available that the icon loader will fall back to "zoom".

One proposed solution for this is to rename "viewmag" to "page-zoom".
This appears to be a poor choice since:

1.	It leaves us without a "zoom" icon for fallback.

2.	It is a singular icon.  There are no other: "page-*"

3.	It is inconsistent with the naming spec.

We also have the "view-*" set of icon (or tree if you prefer that math
metaphor).  I think that it has been agreed that the: "view_remove"
(KDE4: "view-close") icons are not satisfactory and that they have been
misused by various apps.  The proposed solution is that we have a "view"
icon [Oxygen attached] and a "view_remove" ("view-close") icon with a
red "X" [Oxygen attached].

So, if we have icon names: "view" & "zoom" this focuses the question of
the names for the icons for the above 3 KDE Standard Action (FitTo*).
The question is whether they should be members of the "view*" set or the
"zoom" set.

Note that I am presuming that the name "page-zoom" is a mistake that
needs to be promptly corrected (to "zoom").

I think that my original thoughts were correct and the three icons
should be members of the "view-*" set (or tree).

Note that this is not really that important as far as the use by people
is concerned.  However, for the icon loader to act as people expect, it
is important to have logical names for icons.

-- 
JRT





	



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