Re: Button stock icon sizes [urgent]

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:43, Owen Taylor wrote:
> [ Resend, since I managed to get 2/3 email addresses wrong ]
>
> I need a call on this:
>
>  * The GNOME-1.2 stock buttons (OK/Cancel/Yes/No/Apply/etc.) are 20x20, as
>    are the ones in GTK+-1.2 now. The new OK/Cancel icons are 24x24, but are 
>    mostly alpha in the outer pixels.
>
>  * The GTK+-2.0 standard button icon size is 24x24.
>     
I can fix this tomorrow unless jakub did this already (I heard you had talked with him on irc about this, I just returned from dinner etc, so I was unavailable for comment..)

I think we could even just drop the "Ok/Cancel/Etc.." icons totally, since I dont know if they really add anything to the usability. Though one could ask the UI folks. But both windows and macos dont generally have those.
> We need to fix the discrepency, either by padding/redrawing the icons
> or by changing the standard button icon size.
>
> I don't have much of a sense of which size is better; it's competely a
> question of what looks better at typical font sizes. 
>
> If we are going to change the button icon size define, I'd like to do
> it by GTK+-1.3.15, which was scheduled for today, but will probably go
> out tomorrow.
>     
If you still need the help, let me know and I can probably fix them for you tomorrow.

Tuomas

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