Bug 400570 - preferences-desktop-notification-bell is incomprehensible at all but the largest sizes
Summary: preferences-desktop-notification-bell is incomprehensible at all but the larg...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Breeze
Classification: Plasma
Component: Icons (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: visual-design
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Reported: 2018-11-02 02:17 UTC by Nate Graham
Modified: 2019-02-02 16:39 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 5.55
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Attachments
preferences-desktop-notification-bell (46.83 KB, image/png)
2018-11-02 02:17 UTC, Nate Graham
Details
How it's now used in Konsole (26.09 KB, image/png)
2018-11-02 02:19 UTC, Nate Graham
Details
Bell Icon Proposal (198.58 KB, application/zip)
2018-11-02 04:21 UTC, Andres Betts
Details
Bell Icon Color (71.61 KB, application/zip)
2018-11-03 04:17 UTC, Andres Betts
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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