Bug 400570

Summary:	preferences-desktop-notification-bell is incomprehensible at all but the largest sizes
Product:	[Plasma] Breeze	Reporter:	Nate Graham <nate>
Component:	Icons	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	anditosan1000, kainz.a
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:	https://commits.kde.org/breeze-icons/19c936621729edfd5d7f5dc65773ab7bc0df1fa4	Version Fixed In:	5.55
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	preferences-desktop-notification-bell How it's now used in Konsole Bell Icon Proposal Bell Icon Color

Description Nate Graham 2018-11-02 02:17:52 UTC

Created attachment 116036 [details]
preferences-desktop-notification-bell

I *think* preferences-desktop-notification-bell is supposed to be a speaker with an exclamation mark over it. However, this iconography is not very clear to begin with, and at small sized it vanishes completely, looking like a coat button or something. See the attachment.

I think this icon should look like a ringing bell, and we should make sure that it's distinguishible at 16px and 22px sizes.

The need for a better icon here became clear following the implementation of the feature requested in Bug 399140. preferences-desktop-notification-bell was not inappropriately chosen as the icon, and it just doesn't look great: https://i.imgur.com/tFdDGR4.png

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2018-11-02 02:19:05 UTC

Created attachment 116037 [details]
How it's now used in Konsole

Comment 2 Andres Betts 2018-11-02 03:42:11 UTC

Would something like this make more sense?

https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/notification_1040216#term=notification bell&page=1&position=5

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-11-02 03:55:20 UTC

Something like that, yeah.

Comment 4 Andres Betts 2018-11-02 04:21:57 UTC

Created attachment 116038 [details]
Bell Icon Proposal

Here is a proposal. I went for very simple.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-11-02 04:26:49 UTC

Since this is a full-color icon, the new one needs to be full color as well. Only action icons are monochromatic in Breeze.

Comment 6 Andres Betts 2018-11-03 04:17:57 UTC

Created attachment 116058 [details]
Bell Icon Color

Color version of the icon. I went with a bright yellow from our color palette to bring attention to it.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-11-03 04:36:13 UTC

To be honest, I don't like it. :( Feels too cartooney and too simple. I don't think it really fits the full-color Breeze icon style: there's no gradient, no shadowing, and that thick dark outline isn't common. And it doesn't connote that the bell is ringing; on that front, making it diagonal rather than vertically oriented might help.

Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-12-31 17:12:26 UTC

Just found the existing icon for KAlarm, which would be perfect! Perhaps we just need a version of this optimized for 32px.

Comment 9 Nate Graham 2019-02-02 16:39:19 UTC

Git commit 19c936621729edfd5d7f5dc65773ab7bc0df1fa4 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Rafael Brandmaier.
Committed on 02/02/2019 at 16:39.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Improve the Notfication Bell Icon by using the KAlarm design

Summary:

FIXED-IN: 5.55

Improve the `preferences-desktop-notification-bell` icon by using the design from the KAlarm app icon.

Test Plan:
{F6582739}

{F6582738}

Reviewers: #vdg, ngraham

Reviewed By: #vdg, ngraham

Subscribers: abetts, ngraham, ndavis, djarvie, kde-frameworks-devel

Tags: #frameworks

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D18533

M  +1    -195  icons-dark/preferences/32/preferences-desktop-notification-bell.svg
M  +1    -195  icons/preferences/32/preferences-desktop-notification-bell.svg

https://commits.kde.org/breeze-icons/19c936621729edfd5d7f5dc65773ab7bc0df1fa4