RFC: KDevelop4 icons, what do we want/need?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 25.01.07 17:01:07, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Did you look at the attached document?
> 
> Sorry, I don't have the time today. I'll try to do that during the
> weekend. I just wanted to drop a note, as you were saying you commit
> that, possibly producing extra unneeded work.

No problem! Personally I think your fears are unfounded :-) but I 
totally understand where you are coming from. I am happy to wait until 
someone gets a chance to look at it and can confirm that most likely the 
stuff I have listed so far isn't going anywhere. :-)

>> With the exception of 
>> autotools-related stuff (for which I am making a 'don't do this yet!' 
>> note right now :-)), every single item is IMO something that *any* IDE 
>> would have. Maybe I am less visionary, but I don't see the actions 
>> 'build', 'clean', 'run program', 'stop program', etc going away in 
>> KDev4.
> 
> No, the question is more if we're going to need icons for each and every
> action we will have. (And yes we need an icon for each of the ones
> mentioned).

Right. Well, there's a major chunk of my list right there. :-) No, we 
don't need icons for everything, what I have so far is things that seem 
more likely to wind up on a toolbar. :-) Or somewhere other than /just/ 
a menu, anyway (the folder sync, for instance, is always a 100% 
graphical button and never a menu).

>>>> For debugging controls, could VCR icons be used for run, break, stop, restart?
>> Any thoughts here? One point is that the need for VCR-like icons is not 
> 
> Hmm, what is VCR? 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCR <-- this?

i.e. would it make sense to borrow 'play', 'pause', 'stop', etc. icons 
otherwise intended for media player programs for KDevelop?

>> If there are specific items you are concerned about, I would appreciate 
>> more detailed discussion, but at the very least I want my 'sync to dir' 
>> icon request going up. I'm sure you remember the discussion on that a 
>> while back, and as you know this one is certainly not used only by 
>> KDevelop. (And IMNSHO we *really* need a better one :-).)
> 
> Hehe, yeah I do remember :) Please go ahead on that one. I don't have
> Kate4 around to see if it still has a file-tree-view or not.

Neither do I, actually. But I hope grepview's icon doesn't go away, I 
use it a lot! :-)

-- 
Matthew
"I like to think of it as 'unplanned dissonance'" -- A fellow chorister