[Bug 310628] New: Don't use arrow icons to show/hide details in the progress indicator

[Bernd Oliver Sünderhauf]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310628

            Bug ID: 310628
          Severity: normal
           Version: 4.9.3
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Don't use arrow icons to show/hide details in the
                    progress indicator
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: pancho.mz at riseup.net
          Hardware: Chakra
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: folders
           Product: kmail2

When synchronizing IMAP folders (probably POP as well, but I don't use that),
the progress indicator in the status bar displays an upward arrow.
Even if you know that the arrow is a details button, this is disturbing, as an
upward arrow is strongly associated with uploading resp. synchronizing up.
In some circumstances (e.g. after hitting other bugs making you nervous about
your data) this is even more disturbing: you know for sure that there is
nothing to synchronize upwards, so you're fearing that kmail/Akonadi might do
something with the data on your server that it shouldn't do.
Again, knowing doesn't help as our limbic system doesn't care.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
It would be expected that the arrow indicates whether currently data is being
synchronized up resp. synchronized down. The progress details button should use
a different icon. However, plus and minus wouldn't be better, as these are
associated with adding resp. deleting items.
The best approach I can come up is a magnifier icon on a snap-in / snap-out
button.

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