Re: [Deskbar] deskbar 2.20 impressions

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

On 26/10/2007, Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org> wrote:

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Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen schrieb:
>> ** history very hard to scan visually
>>>> The old deskbar history use to have specific icons instead of a generic
>>>> icons. It was very easy to, say, launch Pidgin by looking for that
>>>> unique purple icon in the history. And twinkle for it's yellow star.
>> Now
>>>> it is a manual scan for the text among mostly orange icons--major
>> strain
>>>> on the eyes.
>>>
>>> I am with you  here. I don't know if this is intended or a bug.
>>>
>> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476976 for a explanation.
>
>
> As I also noted in the bug report, the "bug" then might be that the actions
> does not have the right icons.
>
I wouldn't say that the icons of the actions should be the icons of the
matches. This might be useful for matches with only one actions. But
with more actions I think it's difficult to distinguish what each action
does when all have the same icon. Actually, you wouldn't need the icons
anymore then, because they don't give any additional information.

That was not what I was trying to say. I think we misunderstand each other.

Maybe it's possible to just set the icons in the history view to those
of the match instead of the action.

Well, I think that the history icon should match the "item" activated by the user. The user should not have to distinguish between actions or matches. If the user activates the "Launch Text Editor" match with the GEdit icon next to it - that is what I think should appear in the history.

If another icon is shown in the history because the actual default action that was activated had another icon, I say let's fix the action to have the correct icon (the same as the match's icon).

Blah, this is hard to explain :-)

Cheers,
Mikkel


Cheers,
Mikkel