| 2010-10-11 18:52:02 |
Patrick Farrell |
bug |
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| 2010-10-11 18:53:22 |
Patrick Farrell |
description |
Binary package hint: ubuntu-mono
I maintain a GTK app used in-house at my university. It's a graphical
editor for the input to a scientific model. (You can see a screenshot
at http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/index.php?title=Spud .) In the model options,
some things are optional, and can be activated by clicking a plus icon
on the right hand side of the TreeView; such things can then be deactivated
by clicking on a minus icon in the TreeView. (You can see both the pluses
and minuses in the screenshot.)
These icons are represented by a gtk.STOCK_ADD and a gtk.STOCK_REMOVE. But
sometime between lucid and maverick, the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon used in the
Ambiance theme got changed from a minus sign to a red circle with a bar through
it, which to me has a meaning much closer to "cancel" or "danger" than
"remove". As a visual metaphor for removing elements of the input to the model,
it no longer makes sense. My users who have just updated to maverick have been
a bit confused ...
So, is the right thing to do:
a) to bundle my own plus and minus icons, breaking consistency with the rest of
the desktop, or
b) should the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon to be changed back to
the minus sign it was in lucid? Is there a formal description of what the STOCK_REMOVE
should signify anywhere? I couldn't find it through google.
Was there any discussion of the change on a mailing list anywhere? I googled
for it but couldn't find any.
Like I said, the icon was perfectly appropriate in lucid, but it changed in maverick.
Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks,
Patrick |
Binary package hint: ubuntu-mono
I maintain a GTK app used in-house at my university. It's a graphical editor for the input to a scientific model. (You can see a screenshot at http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/index.php?title=Spud .) In the model options, some things are optional, and can be activated by clicking a plus icon on the right hand side of the TreeView; such things can then be deactivated by clicking on a minus icon in the TreeView. (You can see both the pluses and minuses in the screenshot.)
These icons are represented by a gtk.STOCK_ADD and a gtk.STOCK_REMOVE. But sometime between lucid and maverick, the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon used in the Ambiance theme got changed from a minus sign to a red circle with a bar through it, which to me has a meaning much closer to "cancel" or "danger" than "remove". As a visual metaphor for removing elements of the input to the model, it no longer makes sense. My users who have just updated to maverick have been a bit confused ...
So, is the right thing to do:
a) to bundle my own plus and minus icons, breaking consistency with the rest of the desktop, or
b) should the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon to be changed back to the minus sign it was in lucid? Is there a formal description of what the STOCK_REMOVE should signify anywhere? I couldn't find it through google.
Was there any discussion of the change on a mailing list anywhere? I googled for it but couldn't find any.
Like I said, the icon was perfectly appropriate in lucid, but it changed in maverick.
Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks,
Patrick
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| 2010-10-12 08:25:38 |
Patrick Farrell |
attachment added |
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Here's what it looks like with the clearlooks icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/658616/+attachment/1687315/+files/clearlooks-icons.png |
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| 2010-10-12 08:26:11 |
Patrick Farrell |
attachment added |
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And here's what it looks like with the ambiance icons https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-mono/+bug/658616/+attachment/1687316/+files/ambiance-icons.png |
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| 2010-10-19 07:25:23 |
Vish |
affects |
ubuntu-mono (Ubuntu) |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu) |
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| 2010-10-19 07:25:23 |
Vish |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2010-10-19 07:25:23 |
Vish |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2010-10-26 15:54:06 |
Vish |
bug |
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added subscriber SRU Verification |
| 2010-10-26 15:55:28 |
Vish |
branch linked |
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lp:~ubuntu-art-pkg/humanity/release |
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| 2010-10-26 15:58:06 |
Vish |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team |
| 2010-10-26 16:20:41 |
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
nominated for series |
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Ubuntu Maverick |
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| 2010-10-26 16:20:41 |
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
bug task added |
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humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick) |
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| 2010-10-26 16:20:58 |
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): status |
New |
Triaged |
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| 2010-10-26 16:21:04 |
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): importance |
Undecided |
Low |
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| 2010-10-26 16:21:23 |
Jean-Baptiste Lallement |
tags |
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maverick regression-release |
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| 2010-10-26 18:02:50 |
Vish |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): assignee |
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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
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| 2010-10-26 18:03:30 |
Vish |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): assignee |
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Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
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| 2010-11-01 14:15:27 |
Ken VanDine |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): status |
Triaged |
Fix Committed |
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| 2010-11-02 19:25:11 |
Launchpad Janitor |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu): status |
Triaged |
Fix Released |
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| 2010-11-09 18:23:28 |
Martin Pitt |
tags |
maverick regression-release |
maverick regression-release verification-needed |
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| 2010-11-09 19:21:36 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:ubuntu/maverick-proposed/humanity-icon-theme |
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| 2010-11-10 07:49:42 |
Martin Pitt |
tags |
maverick regression-release verification-needed |
maverick regression-release verification-done |
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| 2010-11-12 14:08:53 |
Ken VanDine |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): assignee |
Ken VanDine (ken-vandine) |
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| 2010-11-17 13:03:34 |
Launchpad Janitor |
humanity-icon-theme (Ubuntu Maverick): status |
Fix Committed |
Fix Released |
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