GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 306445
stock icon for the "open recent" menu
Last modified: 2010-09-07 23:43:56 UTC
proposed icons for the "open recent" menu item.
Created attachment 47224 [details] open recent stock icon 16x16
Created attachment 47225 [details] open recent stock icon 24x24
Seems a bit unclear to me. I would initially decipher this as "revert folder"...
I tried di maintain consistency with the revert icon - which is using "undo over save" for its icon - by using the gtk-stock-redo icon; thus a recently opened item is a "redo over open".
I dont think the icon is as important as having a stock Item in gtk. Once the infrastructure/API is in place an icon can be sorted out later. I'm not sure I'd even bother using an icon that was different from the Icon for Open, if I were going to use one at all. Keep in mind this item should always be leading to a submenu.
the recent files should also appear inside the file chooser. win32 and osx have both an icon for the recent files section of their file selection widgets, as far as I remember; maybe, instead of the "revert-open" we could use a clock on a folder/file like win32.
While the metaphor is hard, I think due to the fact the most exposed place will be the file dialog (16x16px icon), we should make it as simple as possible, focusing only on what's important - 'recent' ~ time. I suggest using a clock/pocket watch/hand watch for this.
Created attachment 89403 [details] 24x24px 'recent items'
Created attachment 89404 [details] 16x16px 'recent items' stock icon
I'm not an artist; but I don't really think that metaphor works to convey the idea of recent documents to me. How about a stack of papers ?
The clock focuses on the 'recent' part. I think it's the differentiating element. Focusing on the document part means using the document sheet again --> visual noise. It's not fabulous, but it's recognizable in the context and with a text label I think.A paper sheet stack would look pretty much like a regular file.
since a recent files list, in the context of the file chooser widgets, could be seen as a "history" like the one of a browser, the icon used by epiphany might help the user recognise the function. the icon is a clock with a small arrow superimposed, looking backward (I'm attaching it to the bug).
Created attachment 89912 [details] epiphany history icon (24x24px) don't mean to steal it as it is, but the arrow is subtle enough to fit the 16x16px size too (epiphany has a 16x16 version of the icon).
ping - gnome-icon-theme has the document-open-recent icon, which is released under the GPL license. I'd still like for gtk+ to have its own stock item, though. I think that at least the GtkFileChooser widget should use document-open-recent for the recently used shortcut until gtk+ has a gtk-stock-open-recent stock item.
Created attachment 95085 [details] 16x16 and 24x24 LGPL'd icons Here's the icons.
Created attachment 95466 [details] [review] Use "document-open-recent" from the current theme in the file chooser this patch makes GtkFileChooserDefault use the "document-open-recent" icon from the current theme, and if not found, falls back to GTK_STOCK_FILE. we can add one of the icons attached to this bug as "document-open-recent" to the icon-theme we provide as a fall back.
looks fine to me. do you feel up to figuring out how to add an icon to the builtin icon theme ?
committed to trunk 2007-09-12 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@gnome.org> * gtk/gtkfilechooserdefault.c (render_recent_icon): Use the "document-open-recent" icon for the the Recently Used shortcut in the file chooser. (#306445) * gtk/Makefile.am: * gtk/stock-icons/16/document-open-recent.png: * gtk/stock-icons/16/document-open-recent.svg: * gtk/stock-icons/24/document-open-recent.png: * gtk/stock-icons/24/document-open-recent.svg: Add the "document-open-recent" icon to the builtin theme we provide as a fallback.
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