[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 #9 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
Thanks Adolfo for the history behind the large icons on linux and for the GSoC
link. I dont use mac so i'm not familiar with TextEdit, but i do use Calligra
Words and so see a few large icons with labels in the sidebar for items like
footnote, but they dont have a large icon for inserting a table.

> Again, HiDPI is unrelated to this! If LibreOffice adaptes (i.e. scales)
> correctly for HiDPI screens, you will perfectly see a “small” icon, although
> a bit blurry.

A user's screen resolution is definitely a related issue and one of the primary
reasons for this suggestion. The higher the user's resolution, the smaller the
icons appear on the screen. My use of the words "higher resolution" related to
resolutions equal to and above 1280x768, and at such resolutions, the small
icons are not easy to see and understand for a new/regular user.

> Not true, look deeper...

Yes i was mistaken, the wording should have been "most buttons have labels".
The only ones that dont are ones in the font and paragraph sections and if we
did a percentage of which ones do have labels, it would easily be 95% or more.

> In the end, I do not believe bigger icons will help an unrecognizable icon
> to be recognizable, which was the rationale behind this report. Again,
> change the icons to use a better metaphor, and then see if a random
> twitterer complains.

I have already submitted a bug report about fixing the chart icon's metaphor
(bug 82272), and the rationale behind this report isnt simply about it.

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