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

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

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 82309
                CC: libreoffice-ux-advise at lists.freedesktop.org
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Using large icons as default on windows
          Severity: enhancement
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Windows (All)
          Reporter: philipz85 at hotmail.com
          Hardware: Other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
           Version: unspecified
         Component: ux-advise
           Product: LibreOffice

Similar to Emir's bug 68174 for using large icons in Mac OS X by default, i'd
like to suggest that LibO also use large icons on Windows by default.

I'm suggest this as i think that many regular/new users will benefit from this,
as the smaller icons are becoming quite difficult to see on the ever increasing
screen sizes. Microsoft has gone the route of using larger icons in their OS
(desktop, taskbar, ribbon UI, etc) and i think large icons in LibO will look
good. Even on my 7 year old laptop's screen resolution of 1280x768, the large
icons on the default 2 toolbars look clear and there is still 20% of empty room
to their right. I also tried the 1024x768 resolution to see how it would look
on a 4x3 resolution and it still looked fine.

Though i had this suggestion for sometime, what prompted me to submit the bug
today was that i had a discussion with a user on twitter yesterday who said the
following about not finding the chart icon in calc and i said it is was there.

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@jphilipz That red thing in this screenshot?
http://www.softwarecrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/libreoffice_calc.png If
that's what you're talking about, it needs redrawing.

@jphilipz It looks far more like a red "stop doing something" button than a
chart icon, and the % in the corner doesn't help.

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I'm assuming that if the icons were larger, it may have been easier for him to
spot and understood what the icon was.

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