From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.general Subject: Chronological and structural link icons Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:55:35 +0100 Message-ID: <002301c52b44$7c5edf50$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111100371 18926 80.91.229.2 (17 Mar 2005 22:59:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 22:59:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 17 23:59:30 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DC3xX-0008Cn-Q9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:59:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DC4Du-00051s-UC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:16:14 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DC4Da-0004xc-Cj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:15:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DC4DY-0004wj-Fo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:15:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DC4DY-0004vk-21 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.107] (helo=av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DC3u9-0000gZ-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:55:49 -0500 Original-Received: by av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id E230C37E68; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:55:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av1-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1AB137E47; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:55:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t1o58p127.telia.com [62.20.164.127]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id D359837E45; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 23:55:47 +0100 (CET) Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34684 gmane.comp.gnome.gtk+.general:10888 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34684 When discussing the icons in the Emacs toolbar we discovered that the GTK stock icon items (http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/gtk-Stock-Items.html) does not really distunguish between "chronological" and "structural" links. With a chronological link we mean something like for example the left arrow in Firefox toolbar. This takes the user back to the previously visited page. With a structural link we mean those links that takes you to the previous, next or up node in something structured like a table of contents. It would be nice if you did distinguish between those two kind of links. My suggestion would be to do something like this: *** For chronological links use current GTK_STOCK_BACK and GTK_STOCK_FORWARD. (Compare for example Firefox.) *** For structural links (prev, next and up, maybe down) I would suggest something like what I have informed is found in for example gthumb. The icons there are arrows pointing into a document. It kind of make sense to me - "moving withing the document tree structure". Kind regards, Lennart PS: Please CC answers to me since I am not subscribed to gtk-list@gnome.org.