[Breeze] [Bug 410708] New: New icons for KTimeTracker

[Alexander Potashev]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410708

            Bug ID: 410708
           Summary: New icons for KTimeTracker
           Product: Breeze
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons
          Assignee: visual-design at kde.org
          Reporter: aspotashev at gmail.com
                CC: kainz.a at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY
KTimeTracker uses custom icons from its source code repository (
https://cgit.kde.org/ktimetracker.git/ ). Most of them are raster and too small
for modern screens. And none of them match Breeze style. It would be nice to
release KTimeTracker 5.0 with modern icons/artwork.

I will list and describe each of the icons:

1. pics/active-icon.gif. It used to be 8 raster images, I merged them into this
GIF. This is used as tray icon when a task is active (i.e. time tracking is ON
at the moment).

When no tasks are active, a fixed frame of this GIF is used as tray icon.

Drawbacks:
 - Raster image, should be an SVG
 - The colors do not match modern icon themes, should be a Breeze icon
 - Animated. In my opinion, constantly running animation might distract users.
However I have no good ideas on how to tell the user that a task is active
without using animation, may be add a red dot on top of normal icon - the one
that is commonly understood as "recording"/LIVE.
 - The current animation has low FPS (1 FPS), thus I need to look at the tray
icon for a whole second just to check if . If we choose to continue using
animation, it should be made smooth, I can for example animate a clock face
overlay programmatically at a higher FPS.

2. pics/watch.gif. Used in list view the the application window when a task is
active. It's mostly good, but is a raster one as well, might look pixelated on
high resolution screens. Low FPS of animation is not that big of a problem here
because if you need an icon is list view, then the respective task is obviously
active (otherwise the watch.gif icon is hidden).

3. empty-watch.xpm. Just an empty image. Placeholder for when watch.gif is not
used in the list view.

4. task-incomplete.xpm, task-complete.xpm. Has two uses:
 - Icons for actions "Mark as Complete" / "Mark as Incomplete"
 - Task completion indicator in the list view. If progress of a task is at
100%, then "task-complete" is used. Otherwise, "task-incomplete" is used. The
indicator is clickable: it toggles task completion (sets task progress to 100%
or to 0%, depending on the previous state).

Both of these are raster images and do not match the Breeze icon theme, this is
not good for display in menu items and/or on toolbar.

May be the task completion indicator in list view should use a different icons,
they don't have to be the same with the action items. And we probably don't
really need that clickable behaviour of the indicator, it's a quite obscure and
hacky feature anyway, may be at least replace it with a regular checkbox.

5. icons/*-actions-subtask-new-ktimetracker. This icon does not match Breeze
theme.

It is used for the "Add Subtask..." action. A similar action "Add Task" (adds
top-level task) uses the standard icon "document-new" which is already present
in Breeze themes.

6. icons/*-apps-ktimetracker. Application icon.

Looks good to me, however you might say it looks old.

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