Bug 113239

Summary:	Better icons for offline kopete users and empty groups
Product:	[Unmaintained] artwork	Reporter:	Fred Schättgen <kdebugtracker.sch>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KDE Artists Mailinglist <kde-artists>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, kopete-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Suggestion for the show-online+offline-contacts button

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!