[Breeze] [Bug 408558] New: non-intuitive icons design

[drek.na.sibici at yandex.com]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=408558

            Bug ID: 408558
           Summary: non-intuitive icons design
           Product: Breeze
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons
          Assignee: visual-design at kde.org
          Reporter: drek.na.sibici at yandex.com
                CC: kainz.a at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

comparing breeze to papirus on dolphin (https://phabricator.kde.org/T10891 vs
https://phabricator.kde.org/T10891):
– back/foward buttons: on the reddit screenshot it is clear which icon is
dropdown menu, which icon is not. by default we cant know. breeze is
inconsistent here.
– breeze back/fwd arrow together look like a tag with missing content because
less-than and greater-than are used for icons, on the reddit screenshot it is
really clear that it is an arrow
– “new” icon in breeze.. i’m not sure if this in the bottom right corner is a
graphics glitch or what when you have small display/icon. if it didnt say i
would have to look what is that “glitch” so i understand it. those "gaps" where
one symbol replaces the lines of another one should be changed, addressed with
color maybe?
– view mode in breeze looks more like checkers and not like icons/details
whatever. if i take a look at that icon without context (being on dolphin
toolbar), i would have no clue what it does. it also looks like a stove
– terminal icon uses totally different style

but to go a bit further here here is another screenshot
https://imgur.com/gallery/2ZV1mwq
– last month icon is not self explanatory. why would green mean last month and
black today or yesterday? and the calendar itself is just a bunch of lines.
usually it is designed with just one number inside like here
https://www.123rf.com/photo_54049049_stock-vector-april-30-vector-flat-daily-calendar-icon-date-and-time-day-month-holiday-.html
where you can use -1m
– documents icon actually means left-aligned in all text processors
– images icon looks like scale bottom left corner when it is really small (and
those icons in sidebar *are* designed to be really small)
– today and yesterday cannot be distinguished here
– icon of the hard-drive -> if it didnt say it was a harddrive, i would not
know (you can assume if it has GB next to it, yes, but icon is the focus here)
– again, those 3 icons for “icons, details and tree” are not self explanatory.
the best one is the tree one
– diamond on the window decorations? if we didnt learn on windows what does the
middle button do, based on the icon you cannot understand it.

also, i think i read somewhere (which i cant find anymore) that ‘hollow’ icons
(the ones that are not filled) are not good design principle. now i feel sorry
i didnt save that explanation.

anyhow, i think all those icons are *over* simplified and this is only looking
at dolphin.

please consider developing a new set of breeze icons.

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