Icon Naming Spec: "go-*" icons
James Richard Tyrer
tyrerj at acm.org
Sun Dec 11 06:09:22 EET 2005
The Icon Naming Spec lists four left and right arrows:
go-first
go-previous
go-next
go-last
I question whether "go-previous" and "go-next" are the correct names for
these two icons. In KDE, they are called: "back" and "forward" so using
this, the standard would use the names: "go-back" and "go-forward".
Perhaps there are better names which would be more appropriate
considering RTL and LTR text, but the point is that the names:
"go-previous" and "go-next" are needed for other icons, at least that is
the current usage in KDE.
The reason for this is that there need to be SIX icons here. I attach a
screen shot of a portion of my Toolbar on KPDF.
In KDE, these six icons are called (LTR):
----------------
start
back
forward
finish
----------------
previous
next
----------------
It doesn't make a great deal of difference what the names are but there
do need to be the two additional icons which in KDE are called:
"previous" and "next" so it doesn't appear to be a good idea to have
these names refer to different icons in the Spec unless they are
commonly used for these icons in other desktops.
--
JRT
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