davigno

I was talking about Kmail icons just two posts ago. Well that was already more than 7 months ago (scary!). Anyway, I did a lot of work on Kmail actions, and basically got the final version of the icons. Anyway, some of them may change a little in next months. Some will need to be opimized as action icons (like “print” and “save”) and other may have some beautification improvement (like “delete”).

Action icons have been optimized to look just perfect at 32×32 pixel (the big size) and 22×22 (the small size). In order to do that I had to do 2 different icons, but I’ll talk about that on another post. Ah, if it was 24×24 instead of 22×22 it would be easier. But let’s have a look to the screenshots: Below you can see how default toolbar (on Kubuntu) looks with the new icons:

I don’t use the mail preview pane, so I don’t need on the main toolbar none of the following icons: “print”, “save”, “next and previous unread message”. Those would make more sense on the single message window for me. I think the “File” menu is more than enough for those.

Some thoughts:

I don’t use the mail preview pane, so I don’t need all these icon on the main toolbar. I specially don’t need “print”, “save”, “next and previous unread message”. “File” menu is more than enough for those.

I was also thinking if we could get rid of the “search” action by implementing all-inclusive search bar without the need of an extra dialog window (and so no need to an icon on the toolbar).Activating the text under icon toolbar view, I saw that in Kmail, and probably in many other KDE applications, the action label looks more like a full description of the action. That’s make the “text under icons” view useless, since nobody would keep a toolbar that look like that:

Because of the long labels, a very useful feature (specially when you want new users to get used soon to a new environment) bacame useless.Here there are some proposal for shorter labels:

• New message could be write or compose
• Save as could be just save
• Check mail in could be just Check or Get
• Previous/Next unread message should be just Previous/Next
• Move To Trash could be Delete or Trash

If the label were short I think that “text under icons” toolbar should be set as default.

Seems that’s longest post ever from me!

Oxygen progress is going well. Right now we are finishing core Kde icons, (thanks Aaron for the detailed list) but I also found time to do some improvements here and there.

One of the last retouch was the mimetype sheet. I was not happy with the page curl effect. In my opinion it was too “hard”. I also thought the sheet itself was too tight and dark. Compare the new version.

Much better ha? Another problem of the previous design was the shadow. When scaling down, specially at 64×64 and 32×32 size, the top part of the sheet was looking ugly and not sharp. Centering the shadow under the sheet solved this problem.

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Update:
Below I’ve reduced a bit shadow on 128×128 svg, and that what I get when scaling down.