Icons for page types

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

Hi folks,

In Yelp 3, we have the location entry which displays an icon
alongside the title of the page you're viewing.  Icons are
also shown in the history dropdown.  And as of this week,
I have them in an auto-complete dropdown when you type into
the search field.

See my blog post for an idea of how the icons look:

http://blogs.gnome.org/shaunm/2010/03/11/more-yelp-3-0-location-entry/

I've been thinking about how best to use the icons.  Users
will generally be looking at an individual help file in a
single window.  It's not really useful to show the Empathy
icon over and over again for every page in the Empathy help.

What I'm considering is having icons for certain common page
types.  So we'd have an icon for tasks, overviews, problems,
guides, etc.  I think this would be particularly helpful in
the auto-complete dropdown.

Thoughts?

--
Shaun