[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

Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #6 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> You say it's "optimal" based on one twitter complainer?

Its has been an issue i planned to suggest for some time after introducing a
number of users to libreoffice and have seen there reaction to the small icons
on windows and the large icons on linux. And after the twitter discussion, i
decided that i should report this.

> Those changes were made well before 4.3, in a "Tango Testing" theme, FTR.
> See also Astron's and Miroslav's GitHub accounts.

They may have been made before 4.3 but no users would have seen it before the
4.3 release. In my 4.2.5 version of windows, i have galaxy, high contrast,
crystal, tango, oxygen, and sifr.

> It's certainly not impossible.

It definitely isnt impossible, but if your at a higher resolution, it become
even more difficult to see. I was at my friend's place today and i was showing
him the sidebar with his screen resolution being 1400x900 and we couldnt figure
out the shadow button by just looking at it. With the old tango theme, it was
quite easy to see the shadow behind the letter 'A' at this resolution.

> Really, somebody explain why we need to switch to an oversized and even more
> cluttered default configuration. I wouldn't mind making *some* icons bigger,
> in order to highlight them, but not everything! There was a GSoC proposal to
> code this, why not wait for it?

The large buttons are not oversized at high resolutions. They may be oversized
at 800x600 but definitely arent at any resolution equal to and above 1280x768.
The large icons in ms word are 32x32, while libreoffice's large icons are set
to 26x26. MS word has some large and small icons to highlight more important
features, but they can do this with a single large bar. This cant be achieved
with the toolbars system that libreoffice uses. I would like to see that link
about the GSoC code proposal, if you have it.

When it is the large icon set on both Mac and Linux, i dont see what the fuss
is over having the same in Windows, as i'd assume the same argument used to
have it large on Mac and Linux would apply to Windows.

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