[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 82966] SIDEBAR: Using plus and minus icons to increase/decrease spacing, indent, font size

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82966

--- Comment #5 from Jay Philips <philipz85 at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> I was speaking about the icons themselves: the drawings show clearly that it
> about line spacing.

Well if it is about the clarity of the icons, i think the plus and minus could
be changed to a larger version of the orange arrows portion of the icons, as
the tiny orange portions along with the black next to it isnt really
understandable.

> That said, changing tooltip from "[in/de]crease spacing" to "[in/de]crease
> line spacing" could help too.

Well the spacing of these icons are paragraph spacing and not line spacing. :)

(In reply to comment #4)
> Note that generally (in RTL culture) minus is indicated by
> left/less/backwards and plus by right/more/forwards arrangement. In the
> mock-up the position is reversed. Like JBF I tend to think minus/plus are
> more commonly associated with delete/add.

As it is just a mockup, i went with the manner it is already available in the
sidebar, increase being on the left and decrease being on the right. Yes
minus/plus is related to subtraction/addition, which is what is being done when
we decrease/increase the value of font size, paragraph spacing or indent
spacing. LibreOffice's UI already uses minus/plus signs and up/down arrows to
indicate the increase of values (zoom levels, paragraph spacing, indent
spacing), so any of these two could be used.

> The recent icon series surveys
> being conducted over at User Prompt:
> 
> http://user-prompt.com/portfolio/libreoffice/
> 
> ... indicate this also. UI icons are notoriously difficult. Just a small UX
> comment.

Yes the main issue i was trying to fix with this suggestion is that small UX
icons are difficult to see and understand and simple signs or arrows could
easily take their place.

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