Bug 113239 - Better icons for offline kopete users and empty groups
Summary: Better icons for offline kopete users and empty groups
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: artwork
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KDE Artists Mailinglist
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Reported: 2005-09-24 20:16 UTC by Fred Schättgen
Modified: 2008-12-26 14:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Suggestion for the show-online+offline-contacts button (50.31 KB, image/svg+xml)
2005-09-30 16:57 UTC, Fred Schättgen
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Description Fred Schättgen 2005-09-24 20:16:43 UTC
Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Not sure if this qualifies as a bug; this is my first artwork related bug report. Anyway...

Kopete has only a few toolbar icons by default, which is great.
But the icons to display empty groups and offline users look pretty much like a random choice of some stock icons. 

Each time I click the magnifier, it feels like a search dialog is going to pop up.

Maybe both icons should contain two objects (person icons/folder icons), one in saturated color, the other blurred. Much like the "kdmconfig" icon, but with a gray or pale green translucent thingy instead of the blue one. This would resemble the resulting appearance of the contact list and it's also more meaningful by itself.
Comment 1 Olivier Goffart 2005-09-27 00:57:33 UTC
If you can draw the icon that would be perfect
Comment 2 Fred Schättgen 2005-09-30 16:57:41 UTC
Created attachment 12788 [details]
Suggestion for the show-online+offline-contacts button
Comment 3 Tijn 2005-10-01 15:35:02 UTC
Fred, your suggestion-icon looks great and its purpose is as clear as possible. Kopete should use it! But of-course one can always find something to be nitpicking about:
Since the action-description is "show offline users" (the object is "the offline users"), I think it is more logical to put the object (represented by the desaturated figure) in the foreground.

(It's just a thought; open for discussion; you may disagree ;-) )

Comment 4 FiNeX 2008-12-26 14:34:36 UTC
The "show offline users" has been redrawn by the oxygen team. I'm closing this. If you don't like the current Icon, please open a bug report against oxygen.

thanks!