Re: icons of floating widgets in gui

[Torsten]

On 30.10.2012 21:34, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 03:01 PM, Torsten wrote:
>> On 30.10.2012 20:19, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>> On 10/30/2012 02:05 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK. Nice! No wonder I had no idea what you were talking about in your
>>>> initial post. I guess I personally would sort of like different icons
>>>> for the editor, etc. because otherwise it looks like multiple copies of
>>>> octave in the workspace bar at the bottom of the screen. Can the
>>>> icon be
>>>> altered slightly so that one still associates it with Octave but can
>>>> still tell it isn't the main window?
>>>
>>> But I'm not sure about a completely different icon, as in the case of
>>> the terminal window that you pointed out.  That could get to be too much
>>> and confused with similar icons from different applications.  Instead,
>>> could the Octave icon be used as a backdrop and then maybe put a letter
>>> on top in black or green like 'e' for editor, 'w' for workspace, 'c' for
>>> command window, 'd' for directory window?
>>>
>>> Some other idea?
>>>
>>> Dan
>>
>> The terminal icon is the one used so far. The patch mentioned changes it
>> to the octave logo in order to associate it clearly with octave.
>>
>> Concerning the new icons I thought of the octave logo with some kind of
>> mini logo in the lower right corner. Are there some copyrights on the
>> original logo or is it allowed to post an altered icons as suggestion?
>>
>> Torsten
> 
> That could get sort of small in the workspace menubar, but I think it
> would still be clear that the icons are different from the main icon.
> Were you thinking to convey information via a different sub-icon for
> each function, e.g., like the 'e', 'd', 'c', etc. I suggested?
> 
> Copyright?  I'm not sure.  Others?
> 
> Dan

I think letters in the icons for the floating widgets would require
different icon sets for different translations. I attached two possible
icons for the editor widget. What do you think?

Torsten

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editor-logo.png
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