Re: Chronological and structural link icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Dear gtk-list,

I still have not heard from you. I still would appreciate to hear from you.
The problem below seems to persist.

Kind Regards,
Lennart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
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Cc: "Emacs Devel" <address@hidden>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:55 AM
Subject: Chronological and structural link icons


> When discussing the icons in the Emacs toolbar we discovered that the GTK
> stock icon items (http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-Stock-Items.html)
does
> not really distunguish between "chronological" and "structural" links.
>
> With a chronological link we mean something like for example the left
arrow
> in Firefox toolbar. This takes the user back to the previously visited
page.
>
> With a structural link we mean those links that takes you to the previous,
> next or up node in something structured like a table of contents.
>
> It would be nice if you did distinguish between those two kind of links.
My
> suggestion would be to do something like this:
>
> *** For chronological links use current GTK_STOCK_BACK and
> GTK_STOCK_FORWARD. (Compare for example Firefox.)
>
> *** For structural links (prev, next and up, maybe down) I would suggest
> something like what I have informed is found in for example gthumb. The
> icons there are arrows pointing into a document. It kind of make sense to
> me - "moving withing the document tree structure".
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Lennart
>
> PS: Please CC answers to me since I am not subscribed to
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