On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 21:16, Patrick wrote:
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 12:25, Jody Goldberg wrote:On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 06:56:08PM -0700, Patrick wrote:(1) Insert hyperlink icon is unclear and 'unpleasing'.- Suggest a better icon and we'll consider it.I would suggest a straight chain-link as in Mozilla composer. I think the emphasize should be on "link" not world or web or page or hyper. Who wants to arrow to the world? (Or in this case orange arrow out of a blue blob) [some constructive advice to whoever actually made the work, no hate intended] A link is clearly recognizable, fairly international,
Are you sure about that? (The "fairly international" I mean). It looks to me like a play on words that may not translate well.
straight-forward, can represent a broken link sensibly, can be used as an overlay on other icons if greater meaning is desired (in the same way a little arrow is sometimes used to represent a shortcut) and can be used in other places appropriately where an arrowed world might just look weird (such as when hovering over a hyperlinked cell - the chain-link could be drawn before the popup hyperlink tip to differentiate it from a comment). As for the icon itself, I don't think I'll attempt that right now. Ideally Jimmac who seems to have made all of the other beautiful Gnumeric icons, could be convinced to do it. While I'm on this theme - Is there a corresponding set of standard GTK+ icons that go visually with the Gnumeric icons? I'm running RedHat beta here and the Bluecurve icons look sort of childish in comparison to the gnumeric ones. This is the downside to themed icon sets I suppose - you have to be careful not clash too strongly with an application's native icons. [Oh. it looks like Jimmac made the hyperlink ones too.]Should "External link" be called "File link" instead? It seems more straightforward. Inserting a hyperlink does not display anything in the cell containing the hyperlink. Only the mouse cursor changes. Is this intended?- 'External link' is definitely cumbersome, bugzilla and we can revisit for 1.3 - yes, that is what its supposed to do for now. I suppose we could change the cell content if its blank. Hard to say.I don't understand your response. Just to be clear we're talking about the same thing here. If I enter a new hyperlink with http://www.gnumeric.org and the "Tip" as "Gnumeric homepage", there is absolute no visual indication on the cell where it was placed that a hyperlink is there unless I hover over with the mouse.
unless there is text in the cell in which case it is quite obvious.
To my mind this should be modelled more along the lines of an <a href=""></a> since this is the epitome of common hyperlinks. The actual visual representation of a link could be a few possibilities: - none - display link location (ie. http://...) - description - use cell content Hmm. I will need to think about this for a bit. I will bugzilla when I come up with something.
It is modelled after that: Unless you have content such a hyperlink is also invisible. With content the link looks like the one in gnumeric. Andreas
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