I think it's because the words for bold and italic change depending on the language. If you just use a character and show the effect, it tells the user what it does without having to refer to a specific word.
~ Maggie On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:01 PM, Sabin Densmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Just out of curiosity, is there a particular reason we're not using "B" > and "I" to indicate Bold and Italic? I don't care either way, but am > curious as to why. > > For what it's worth, Thunderbird (what I'm using now) uses a capital > letter "A". It's just hard to tell the difference between an italic "A" > and a non-italic "A". > > - sd > > On 3/12/2012 7:39 AM, Kévin PEIGNOT wrote: > > Hi everyone > > > > Sorry to have been off so much time (I'm very busy these times). > > > > In my part, I prefer Uppercases ones, just because they seems me more > > beautiful : I don't think upper or lower are more or less confusing. So, > > for me, it's just a mater of feelings, that's all ! > > > > Kévin > > > > 2012/3/11 Mirek M. <[email protected]> > > > >> 2012/3/11 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos <[email protected]> > >> > >>> I'd prefer lowercase icons, because they're more recognizable in a > >>> glance as I already said in the wiki page. Three uppercase "A"s can be > >>> easily confused. > >>> > >> Lowercase As can be confused just as easily. As stated -- if we need the > >> bold icon to stand out more, I propose we simply make it a bit thicker. > >> Nobody seems to have had any problems with the current Tango icon set, > >> which uses uppercase letters. > >> > >>> The Humanity (and Gnome) icon themes included in Ubuntu use lowercase, > >>> you can check apps like Inkscape or Abiword to see that. > >>> > >> Oddly, Inkscape seems to use lowercase A only for the bold and italic > >> icons. Every other icon with text uses a capital A to symbolize it. > >> > >>> BTW, I don't quite understand how can uppercase or lowercase letters > >>> be more or less "inline with your design goals." > >>> > >> Uppercase icons are crisper, which is one of the design goals. > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > >> Problems? > >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > >> Posting guidelines + more: > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > >> deleted > >> > >> > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
