From kde-core-devel  Sun Dec 19 17:52:03 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 17:52:03 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: toolbar icons
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94562595106359

Kurt Granroth wrote:
> 
> Okay, now that we're passed KRASH, it's time to have another look at
> our toolbar icons.  They have served us well to this time.. but they
> have a few problems which need fixing.
> 
> 1) They only come in locolor (8-bit) when most of us are now running
>    hi-color systems
> 
> 2) They only come in "small" size (no medium or large versions)
> 
> 3) Their size is wrong
> 
> That last fault needs some explaining, I'd guess.  Our icons style
> convention has always been: 16x16 for "mini" icons, 22x22 for toolbar
> icons.  However, this isn't quite true!  If you look at the toolbar
> icons closely, you'll see that MOST (if not all) of them are in fact
> 16x16 icons with a 3 pixel transparent border around them.
> 
> I found this out when I was trying to use non-toolbar icons in a
> toolbar.  I noticed that the toolbar buttons assume that the
> transparent border is there.  This is wrong!  All widgets using icons
> MUST assume that the icon is "full".
> 
> There are two possible solutions to this.
> 
> 1) Say that the small size of the toolbar buttons is 22x22 but strip
>    off the transparent border off of the icons and make them the 16x16
>    icons that they really are.  The buttons must compensate for this.
> 
> 2) Redraw the toolbar icons to take up the full 22x22 size.  The
>    toolbar buttons would then have to be bigger than that to have some
>    sort of buffer (for aesthetic purposes)
> 
> I favor 1).
> 
> My proposed to solution to problems 1) and 2) are the same: integrate
> the toolbar icons into our current icon scheme.
> 
> We know have (for example):
> 
> $SHARE/icons/small/locolor/apps
> $SHARE/icons/small/locolor/devices
> $SHARE/icons/medium/hicolor/mimetypes
> 
> I propose that we extend this by adding the following subdirs:
> 
> icons/small/locolor/toolbar
> icons/small/hicolor/toolbar
> icons/medium/locolor/toolbar
> icons/medium/hicolor/toolbar
> icons/large/locolor/toolbar
> icons/large/hicolor/toolbar
> 
> Thoughts? Comments?

Well, what shall BarIcon serve? Are you going to draw them?
These sound like 6 times more toolbar icons

Greetings, Stephan

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