From kde-pim Mon Mar 22 12:50:30 2004 From: "enine" Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:50:30 +0000 To: kde-pim Subject: Re: [Kde-pim] Kontact Polishing Message-Id: <200403220450.AA1168441448 () ninefamily ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-pim&m=107996002817952 ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Adriaan de Groot Reply-To: kde-pim@kde.org, adridg@cs.kun.nl Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:42:41 +0100 (MET) >Hi Luke, > >Please don't top-post, as it's confusing and irritating (I couldn't tell >there _was_ an attached screenie, at first) - and please snip stuff you're >not responding to. > >On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luke Randall wrote: >> I've attached a screenshot of Kontact on my box. I changed the icons around a >> bit, for reasons explained below: > >It _looks_ reasonable, but .. > >> Mail: I feel the metaphor should be an email app, rather than KMail >> specifically, thus I changed the icon to a generic mail icon > >Except that it _is_ KMail, specifically, that you'll get, no? > >> Notes: I felt the knotes icon doesn't look very crystal-like, and doesn't fit >> in well with the icons. I think the kate icon looks a lot better, and fits in >> with the notes metaphor > >This is where things get really confusing, I think, for the user who might >mix kontact with other KDE applications or kontact with the non-contact >versions of the same apps. For instance, with your changed icons, suppose >I'm running KNotes standalone with a note opened and then minimized, have >a kate window also minimized, and now run kontact. The mismatch between >the icon in kontact and the icons visible in my taskbar is a bad one. In >other words, this needs a _different_ fix, perhaps a new and nicer icon >for KNotes, but not the use of another app's icon. > Since were on the subject of changing icons, how about changing KNode as well. IMHO a newspaper does not associate with an NNTP reader even though they are "net news" they are not really news in the sense of newspaper news, I think a newspaper icon better fits something like knewsticker. ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the HostPortal WebMail system at ninefamily.com _______________________________________________ kde-pim mailing list kde-pim@mail.kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-pim kde-pim home page at http://pim.kde.org/