[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 100849] Currency icon is har =?UTF-8?Q?dcoded=20to=20=E2=80=9C=24=E2=80=9D?=, which is inappropriate to locales not using dollars

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100849

--- Comment #12 from Yousuf Philips (jay) <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #9)
> I can’t agree that *coins* aren’t understood as money.

If the coins were clearly seen as coins, like how they look in Galaxy, maybe
people would understand it as money, but unfortunately they arent. And that is
the in case of the large icons (24x24), while the small icons (16x16) are even
more difficult to understand.

> MS Office also uses
> coins for this action, so the point is moot even if it weren’t about such an
> obvious, straightforward metaphor.

No MS Office uses the dollar sign in all Excel versions I have installed (2003,
2007, 2010, 2013).

2003 -
http://www.free-downloads.us/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Microsoft-Excel-2003-Free.gif

2010 - http://weborb.gcflearnfree.org/weborbassets/uploads/ID_82/workbook_2.png

2013 -
http://blog.directionstraining.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Excel2013-3.png

I've see a few screenshots online of Excel using a paper bill with coins,
though not sure when this would appear.

http://www.asap-utilities.com/screenshots/excel-application/excel-country31-version11.png

http://www.excel2013.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Excel_2013_Interface_Modern_UI.png

Google Docs uses a dollar sign[1] and Gnumeric uses paper bill with coins[2].

[1] http://www.techf5.com/pic/ms-excel-online-2.png
[2] http://cdn.ilovefreesoftware.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Gnumeric.png

(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #11)
> Nobody other than Jay has
> complained about the default icons after all the time that OOo and LO has
> been out.

People do complain about the default icons, but they dont come to bugzilla to
complain about it, as can be seen with our old chart icon in bugs 82272 comment
1. I've heard complaints about the default icons from QA members on IRC as
well, which is why I bothered to improve our default icons[3]. Many users
choose to use another icon theme as they prefer the metaphors used there. Also
the 'Classic' icon theme, which was round in the OOo days, had a dollar sign
next to the coins for easier clarity.

[3] https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/333

> Nobody else seems to find *coins* (let me stress that again) a
> difficult methaphor to represent *money*.

If it were a single coin icon like this[4] or two coins like this[5], it would
be easier to understand both as a small and large icon, but a stack of coins is
not understandable with our icon sizes and wont be easy to design in other icon
themes like breeze and sifr.

[4]
http://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/custom-icon-design/pretty-office-11/512/coin-us-dollar-icon.png
[5]
http://ku703611.bplaced.net/Ranchet_Dev/FEAUTRE_REQUEST_HP_FOCUS_MOUSE/gold/Gold-coins-icon.jpg

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