[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 90452] Breeze icons poorly visible in Start Center

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90452

--- Comment #42 from miles at filmsi.net ---
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #39)

> (In reply to miles from comment #37)
> > Wouldn't Breeze icons look better in that?
> 
> Those are Breeze icons--just the special set done for ODF documents
> 
Well, just wanted to say I prefered those appearing by default in 5.0b1.

(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #39)
> (In reply to miles from comment #38)
> > And this still does not solve the issue of two buttons at the bottom of
> > sidebar, they are still from some other design (smaller font size, box
> > around them, two in a row, ...).
> 
> Nothing to "solve", that is simply styling assigned to textbox buttons in
> the backingwindow.cxx source, easily adjusted as needed --
> http://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sfx2/source/dialog/backingwindow.
> cxx#335

What I wanted to say is that the concept of having both hyperlinks with icons
and boxed buttons (with smaller font size), one stacked vertically and one
stacked horizontally in the same pane is not coherent and clean.

Was there any mockup of having those two buttons transfered into hyperlinks,
one in a row, just like the above app links? A divider, already used between
the Create and folders section, could still be used at the bottom. But that is
just my opinion, of course.

I must also support the notion that the folder icons in this icon set seem
bigger than the module icons.

As far as readability is concerned, these app icons are really not readable
well (unlike the ones appearing by default in LO50b1), the quite small and
thin-lined white design inside them is hardly readable so users will not "read"
from the icon what app they want, which actually makes the icons somewhat
redundant in this scenario.

It would be the same if not better if only colored dots or boxes or already
used (semi-transparent) triangles (each of the current icon/app color) would be
in front of the app links text (in fact that might even be a graphically
clearer solution, there will be enough un-unified graphics shown in the
document preview pane, so excess design in the left pane just makes it all too
).

The Calc icon especially is a bit misguiding, I thought at first that a
calculator is displayed (but it should represent a table, spreadsheet).

Also the "Recent files" text should probably be rendered in white, not grey (to
be on par with file names etc.), if needed at all - currently I do not see this
text in LO44 or LO50b1 and I do not see why it would be needed - if this pane
also contained the Open file dialog upon clicking the "Open File" link, that
would be reasonable. But the content of this pane does not change clicking any
of the buttons on the left, so titles here are not explicitly needed. It just
takes additional space. If already needed, this title should remain in space
and only the thumbnails pane should be scrollable - but that would require
fixing it into another-colored pane etc.

And another thing - why is the Extensions button there at all? Why would
someone be looking or trying to install an extension even before one single
module is started? I never used it in this context and I do use several
extensions, also regularly updating them. But it is just not something you open
with LO, so an explanation why this link to a website is here would be in
place; of course if clicking it would open an array of suggested extensions in
the thumbnail preview pane that would make some sense, but this now is like a
work in progress that just got forgotten in the middle.

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