[Glade-devel] New icons for the palette
Joaquin Cuenca Abela
e98cuenc@free.fr
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 21:45:09 +0100
Paolo wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 08:29 +0100, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> > > * the TreeView one (or at least I think it's that, last
> on the 4th
> > > row) is a bit confusing and too similar to
> > > ScrolledWindow: IMHO the old icon did represent the "tree"
> > > idea better.
> >
> > I don't quite get this one. The last icon on the 4th row is the
> > optionmenu, not the TreeView. The TreeView is the second
> icon on the 4th row.
>
> D'oh, my bad :)
>
> OTOH this confirms that those two icons are a bit confusing :)
I don't think that you got confused because the icons were specially
confusing, but because in the "oldpalette" screenshot you had a TreeView in
the same place as the optionmenu.
> IMHO something like the old TreeView icon (which has a small tree
> inside) would be better: the new icon is really similar to a Table.
The old CList icon looked like the new one (a table with a header). I don't
see how to put a tree inside a column of the icon, and make it aesthetically
pleasant. As it can act like a CList or a CTree, I choose the easier
methaphore. I will give another shot to the tree inside the first column
idea, but I don't promise anything :-)
> About the OptionMenu I really don't know: I never liked the
> old icon, but the new icon is very similar to other different
> widgets. It looks like a paragraph of text with a vertical
> scrollbar (btw, do optionmenus have a scrollbar?).
The problem is that in fact the real widget looks almost the same as a
combobox. The old icon is quite dependent of the old gtk+ theme, so I don't
think we should imitate it. So here it's a "I don't have anything better".
It was also one of the icons that I picked from straigh from the OpenOffice
stock icons done by jimmac... If he didn't find anything better, I don't
think I will do either :-)
> On the
> bright side, note that OptionMenu is deprecated in gtk+ 2.4 ;-)
fiuuuuffff :-)
Cheers,