Chronological and structural link icons

Chronological and structural link icons

[Lennart Borgman]

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.

Re: Chronological and structural link icons

[Lennart Borgman]

Dear gtk-list,

I still have not heard from you. I still would appreciate to hear from you.
The problem below seems to persist.

Kind Regards,
Lennart


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
To: <gtk-list@gnome.org>
Cc: "Emacs Devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:55 AM
Subject: Chronological and structural link icons


> 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.
>
>
>
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Re: Chronological and structural link icons

[Richard Stallman]

Now that Emacs has GTK support, it would be a good thing to have
consistent, standard GTK icons that make the distinctions Emacs needs
to make.  Currently we use other icons where GTK doesn't supply
standard ones, but that doesn't look very good.