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Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST:Could someone help me creating an icon for the sidebar ?
From:       Torsten Rahn <tackat () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-11-21 21:02:37
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On Wednesday 21 November 2001 19:21, Joseph Wenninger wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had a long email discussion with someone, who was confused of the home
> icon in the sidebar. He had problems realising the difference between the
> action in the toolbar and the one in the sidebar. Does someone have an idea
> for a replacement ?

I think this is rather a conceptual problem.
All the icons refer to the information (i.e. the filesystem) to be displayed 
in the sidebar. If one would want to indicate that withinin one icon, one 
would have to indicate that for _all_ of these icons as well (i.e. bookmark, 
network etc.). Having  a special "indicator symbol" for each of these icons 
doesn't really make sense to me as this should really be clear once you 
understand the concept behind the sidebar. If we would create extra icons for 
this purpose with some graphical indicators we would also have to create 
special icons for the same reason for the filedialog. 

IIRC microsoft offers a much better solution to this problem by using vertical 
tabs which open to the left side to make it obvious that e.g. the home-icon 
doesn't refer to the main-view but to the sidebar instead (See qwertz's 
illustration).
Would it be possible to make the sidebar using vertical tabs instead of the 
buttons being used right now? Of course this solution might infer with the 
multiple-view mode somehow as tabs usually have only one 'active' tab.

Greetings,
Tackat

> I'm not really artisticaly talented, so any help is appreciated for ideas
> or for icons.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Joseph Wenninger
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