[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 119073] New: Improve Elementary icon set

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            Bug ID: 119073
           Summary: Improve Elementary icon set
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.1.0.1 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: J22Gim at gmail.com

Version: 6.0.1.1
Build ID: 60bfb1526849283ce2491346ed2aa51c465abfe6
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group

Hi, I love Elementary icons and I use them in my LibreOffice installation. But
there are a couple of things I suggest to polish. These are related to two
functions I use a lot: "Track changes" (in particular when "Record" option is
active) and some icons to set the functionality of the sidebar deck.

Track changes: the buttons to review the changes include a big, green tick
mark, then the button for "reject track change” is a document with a red cross,
while the next button is a document with a green tick mark. Thus, one should
immediately understand that either a) the document with a red cross should be
“reject all changes in document” and the document with green tick mark should
be “accept all changes in document”, or b) both buttons are just to reject or
accept the currently selected change, right? However, both buttons are for very
different purposes: the document + red cross is to reject the currently
selected change, while the document+green tick mark is to “Manage track
changes” (ie opens a window to review all changes, deletions, addenda). So in
my opinion it is a little confusing and they don’t convey the meaning in a
clear way. There should be 5 icons: two icons which look similar (except for
the red cross and green tick mark) to reject or accept the change, then another
pair which look similar (except for the red cross and green tick mark) to
reject or accept ALL changes in document. And a 5th icon to review each change
in a separate window (this is currently the icon with a document and a green
tick mark). So as it is now one can argue that the visual meaning is
misleading.

As a side not, the tooltip help of these buttons should not be “Reject track
change” or “Accept track change” because the user doesn’t want to reject/accept
the functionality of tracking changes she/he wants to reject/accept the change
itself.

The second thing I suggest to improve is the icon to activate the Navigator. In
other icon set (don’t remember which one, I switched immediately to Elementary)
Navigator is a compass. It makes sense. But in Elementary it is a kind of check
list with a pencil.. not much sense in my opinion.

Third, and maybe less important, also refering to the side deck: I suggest to
switch the icons for “Styles and formatting” and “Page”. The “Styles and
formatting” is a page with a ruler, which is more appropriated for “Page”
because there (ni Page) you set the page size, etc., while the icon for “Page”
is a blank page. If nothing better is available for “Styles and formatting” I
would leave a blank page, at least not to confuse with measurements (which are
set in the Page menu, not here).

Thanks a lot for your hard work!

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