[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 82309] Using large icons as default on windows

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82309

--- Comment #13 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> Not sure why you’ve suddenly decided to post a bunch of screenshots of
> radically different software, what’s the point of it?

Well i had been wanting to post these for a while and after i had a discussion
in the design IRC about the issue, i decided to come back here to do it. 

> Are you trying to
> compare an office suite with antivirus programs, system utilities and
> simpler software such as a messenger? That’s crazy, not even the use cases
> are the same!

The point here wasnt about comparing applications, it was about whether
applications with toolbars on windows have small or large icons. If you wish to
brush aside a number of these applications, thats fine, but you cant brush
aside document viewers like Adobe Acrobat and Foxit Reader.

> And the Office Ribbon screenshot isn’t helpful either… it is
> only a demostration of the rationale behind the GSoC project I’ve already
> mentioned (comment 8).

The office ribbon screenshot was primarily to show what the various tabs of the
UI looked like for people who may not have it installed and that most icons
(big or small) have labels with them. If you look at the screenshots of most of
the applications that i previously linked to their screenshots, they also
follow a similar concept of having icons and labels. There isnt a need to wait
for when the GSoC project gets done, as that proposal will likely be an
optional feature and not the standard UI users will see by default. I will be
writing a patch for this fix in the next few days.

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