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

[Matthew Woehlke]

Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Tuesday, 30. January 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>       ? 'resume'
>>                 opposite of 'pause' (i.e. 'not restart')
>>                 IDEAS: pause with circle+slash
>>                 (should become 'media-playback-resume')
> 
> While I'm not so sure anymore if using the media-playlist-repeat icon 
> for 'restart' (because it's a status icon, not an action icon like the other 
> ones), I do believe that 'resume' should be the plain standard 'play' icon, 
> for the following reasons:
> 
> - One icon less that needs to be drawn.
> - Seriously, I think that it's pure hell to find an analogy that fits.
>   What I'm saying is, the icon won't be intuitively recognized as Resume,
>   because there is no good icon for this action other than 'play'.
> - When 'resume' is displayed, 'execute' is not, so there are no two buttons
>   with the same icon.
> - The 'play' icon for the 'resume' action is also well-known from the
>   audio/video/whatever-media playback world. Using well-known analogies
>   is a good thing.
> 
> Please consider my reasoning.
> I'm still unsure about 'restart', I'll be making my mind up about that one.

Actually, I /am/ considering your reasoning. :-) The reason 'resume' is 
there (and with a question mark) is because I got the impression that no 
solid consensus had been reached on what actions would do what w.r.t. 
execute, pause, resume, restart, etc. So far there seem to be two 
suggestions:

Suggestion 1:
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'play' ALWAYS (re)starts the program
'pause' is a toggle, pause/resume


Suggestion 2:
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'play' and 'pause' switch (only one active at a time)
'restart' always does that; when not running, this is the same as 'play'

Currently, I am trying to leave the needed bits of both suggestions in 
there, i.e. we need either a 'restart' or a 'resume' icon, which in 
either case is different from the standard 'play'. When a decision is 
reached (and to be honest, I'm leaning towards #2 also :-)) then the 
list should/will be clarified to reflect that.

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