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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Kontact Polishing
From:       "enine" <enine () ninefamily ! com>
Date:       2004-03-22 12:50:30
Message-ID: 200403220450.AA1168441448 () ninefamily ! com
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From: Adriaan de Groot <adridg@sci.kun.nl>
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.  

 
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