Re: Strange toolbar icon for connect/disconnect

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane <at> imap.cc> writes:

> 
> On Tue, Dec 12 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Hi, the toolbar icons that get used for connect/disconnect are
> > actually icons for "connected/disconnected".  
> 
> The names of the corresponding Gnome icons are stock_connect.png and
> stock_disconnect.png so I assumed that they fit, but I don't have a
> strong opinion on this.
> 
> > That is, they don't visualize an action, but a state.  The customary
> > usage of these connected/disconnected icons is to display the
> > _current_ state, not the state that is reached after pressing the
> > button.
> >
> > The icon images should be swapped, since otherwise they are confusing
> > to users accustomed to them.
> 
> Do you have an URL to some Gnome or GTK guidelines?  Or some concrete
> examples of Gnome/Gtk applications using stock_connect.png and
> stock_disconnect.png?

I think Evolution uses them.  Maybe also Thunderbird.

Perhaps one can normally display the current state, but display the changed
state on mouse-over.  It might or might not make it easier to discern what will
happen when pressing.

-- 
David