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
Created attachment 116037 [details] How it's now used in Konsole
Would something like this make more sense? https://www.flaticon.com/free-icon/notification_1040216#term=notification bell&page=1&position=5
Something like that, yeah.
Created attachment 116038 [details] Bell Icon Proposal Here is a proposal. I went for very simple.
Since this is a full-color icon, the new one needs to be full color as well. Only action icons are monochromatic in Breeze.
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.
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.
Just found the existing icon for KAlarm, which would be perfect! Perhaps we just need a version of this optimized for 32px.
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