From kde-artists Mon Apr 30 21:53:43 2007 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Jaros=B3aw_Staniek?= Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:53:43 +0000 To: kde-artists Subject: [kde-artists] A case for go-{first/previous/next/last} oxygen icons Message-Id: <46366567.5080506 () iidea ! pl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-artists&m=117796999223462 Hello, I've prepared mocups that tells you all what's the potential problem: Oxygen icons for go-first, go-last actions are too similar to go-previous, go-next, respecially, when we use 16x16 sizes or just larger resolutions. That's because go-first, go-last use dot instead of a vertical line. While I value innovaion related to the dot, the dot is quite small. (that's why I CC'd this post to usability ML too) Original KDE3/Kexi1.x icons: [1] http://kexi-project.org/pics/icons/navigation/navigation_icons_original.png The problem with the dot: [2] http://kexi-project.org/pics/icons/navigation/oxygen_navigation_icons_problem.png Even more viible problem when "flat" interface is used: [3] http://kexi-project.org/pics/icons/navigation/oxygen_navigation_icons_problem2.png Would using icons like 'media-skip-forward' be a solution? It's more like fast-forward in meaning than the expected 'go to the very-last row'. I would be satisfied with just adding the vertical lines instead of docs and thus creating a new pair of database-first-row and database-last-row, if you prefer such a simple solution. I can also see a small relation to style of arrow icons within scrollbar buttons, whatever it can look like in the default KDE4 widget style. -- Another problem, in particular -- within Kexi (and thus any app utilizing database-related actions) -- is that we would have problem with "go to new, empty record" action if it looks very similar to go-last (example from MS Access): [4] http://kexi-project.org/pics/msa/icons/msa_addnew.png For now I have "+" icon, as you can see on [1], but in fact the "+" has never been too accurate as the actions doea not add anything immediately, but just moves the cursor. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on Kexi & KOffice: http://www.kexi.pl/en, http://www.koffice.org KDE3 & KDE4 Libraries for MS Windows: http://kdelibs.com, http://www.kde.org ______________________________________________________________________________ kde-artists@kde.org | https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-artists