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Subject: Re: toolbar icons
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () itm ! mu-luebeck ! de>
Date: 1999-12-19 17:52:03
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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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