From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/64110 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Strange toolbar icon for connect/disconnect Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:08:36 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <86odq9pji4.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166051383 3660 80.91.229.10 (13 Dec 2006 23:09:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:09:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M12633@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Dec 14 00:09:42 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GudEI-000756-GI for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:09:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GudEA-00055V-4M; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:09:30 -0600 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GudE7-000555-TA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:09:27 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1GudE1-0006X4-Ti for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 13 Dec 2006 17:09:27 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1GudE1-0004rW-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:09:21 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GudDp-0003NG-4b for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:09:09 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:09:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: :6KQZ[nyoS_edmB.%gw-=)BYth^|2+Y+^cu%I$FSx!&>-'om>3H7A|M&n(V7fIo3P.;yo.b yq4$p;ZaBtkv)\}biaiBQe"mD}iib1AA@99-fZ7i*bLhNRVC&0Wkxg9)SH?oWc@{ Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vMAM02gQe4OmskJ4aIAbWK+IcjY= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:64110 Archived-At: 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? Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/