Subject: Re: toolbar icons too beefy?
From: Dom Lachowicz (doml@appligent.com)
Date: Fri Nov 16 2001 - 15:18:17 CST
On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 16:19, Paul Rohr wrote:
> Dom,
>
> When you updated the toolbar icons recently, did you happen to compare the
> sizes of those images with the originals? For most people, this may be a
> subtle nitpick, but to me they look *huge*.
The icons are still 24x24. MacOSX has (had?) the same problem - it
allocates a 24x24 button to draw the icon on. Our old icons *data*
(non-transparent parts) was more like 21x21 instead of closer to the
24x24 actual icon size. Make your buttons 26x26 or something like that
and this will go away.
> On recent Win32 builds, it looks like these are bigger and beefier. Enough
> so, in fact, that some of the edges get clipped when they're squeezed into a
> Win32 toolbar.
They are bigger and beefier. The clipping is described above.
> PS: I have to admit that I really liked the old icons. However, like any
> UI change, I'm giving it some time to see if it grows on me.
The overwhelming majority of people in Unix and Mac land like the new
icons (even my windows-using friends agree). Everyone polled on IRC
likes the new icons. I spoke up before even with a screenshot of what
Abi would look like with the new icons (including a warning saying that
I would upgrade abi in the near future to use these said icons:
http://www.mail-archive.com/abiword-dev%40abisource.com/msg18841.html),
and it go 0 replies. You spoke up too late. I'm not CVS reverting my
checkin.
Dom
/stickler
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