>>> On 2010-11-25 at 12:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu. 25.11.2010 10:19, Michael Meeks wrote: >>> prompted by some complaints on too large icons on Mac, switched the >>> icon size from 'large' to 'auto' for 3.3. >> >> Did we ever get some screenshots of the perceived problem ? I asked in >> some bug, but never got that back AFAIR. >> >>> this was already in place for windows >> >> I really think the small icons are a usability, and legibility disaster >> when used on large screens - and there is a real risk of selecting them; >> >> My concern is for Windows really - I'd want the vast majority of users >> on> 1024x768 to have large icons. > > That's fine, but the large Icons are (about 50%) *too* large. I'm on > Windows 7, have a 19" monitor, ratio: 4:5, resolution: 1280x1024 and I > cannot fit the icons I want into the Toolbar. > > See screen-shot: > http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/akH_sf-pDibweqBLML-dcQ?feat=directlink > > The situation is made worse by the very poor quality of the icon images. > For instance: > > 1. The "New document" icon looks more like a fireplace than the standard > (a blank white rectangle). > > 2. the "Open Document" icon doesn't look like most open icons (yellow > folder) and looks worse (so deviating from the standard was not an > improvement). > > 3. The "Close Document" icon is a black X. That symbol almost always > means *delete*. > > 4. The "Print" icon is too blurry. Even at the too large size it is less > recognizable than the much smaller Print icons of most other applications. > > 5. There is no "Page Settings " icon. > > 6. The "Zoom" icon looks too much like a find icon. Pot. solution: add a > "+" inside the magnifier. > > 7. The "Review Changes" Toolbar icons don't have icons (only text). > > 8. The "Styles and Formatting" icon looks like a > Even users in non-localized countries will recognize the B > I U better than A A A, even if they don't know what the letters stand > for. Even Windows Live Writer uses B I U.
These icons *are* localised, as far as I can see. At least in beta3 on Windows, in Swedish, they show up as F K U I guess I don't need to spell it out what English phrase those big ugly letters always make me think of. --tml _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
