https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410708
Bug ID: 410708
Summary: New icons for KTimeTracker
Product: Breeze
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Icons
Assignee: visual-des...@kde.org
Reporter: aspotas...@gmail.com
CC: kain...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
KTimeTracker uses custom icons from its source code repository (
https://cgit.kde.org/ktimetracker.git/ ). Most of them are raster and too small
for modern screens. And none of them match Breeze style. It would be nice to
release KTimeTracker 5.0 with modern icons/artwork.
I will list and describe each of the icons:
1. pics/active-icon.gif. It used to be 8 raster images, I merged them into this
GIF. This is used as tray icon when a task is active (i.e. time tracking is ON
at the moment).
When no tasks are active, a fixed frame of this GIF is used as tray icon.
Drawbacks:
- Raster image, should be an SVG
- The colors do not match modern icon themes, should be a Breeze icon
- Animated. In my opinion, constantly running animation might distract users.
However I have no good ideas on how to tell the user that a task is active
without using animation, may be add a red dot on top of normal icon - the one
that is commonly understood as "recording"/LIVE.
- The current animation has low FPS (1 FPS), thus I need to look at the tray
icon for a whole second just to check if . If we choose to continue using
animation, it should be made smooth, I can for example animate a clock face
overlay programmatically at a higher FPS.
2. pics/watch.gif. Used in list view the the application window when a task is
active. It's mostly good, but is a raster one as well, might look pixelated on
high resolution screens. Low FPS of animation is not that big of a problem here
because if you need an icon is list view, then the respective task is obviously
active (otherwise the watch.gif icon is hidden).
3. empty-watch.xpm. Just an empty image. Placeholder for when watch.gif is not
used in the list view.
4. task-incomplete.xpm, task-complete.xpm. Has two uses:
- Icons for actions "Mark as Complete" / "Mark as Incomplete"
- Task completion indicator in the list view. If progress of a task is at
100%, then "task-complete" is used. Otherwise, "task-incomplete" is used. The
indicator is clickable: it toggles task completion (sets task progress to 100%
or to 0%, depending on the previous state).
Both of these are raster images and do not match the Breeze icon theme, this is
not good for display in menu items and/or on toolbar.
May be the task completion indicator in list view should use a different icons,
they don't have to be the same with the action items. And we probably don't
really need that clickable behaviour of the indicator, it's a quite obscure and
hacky feature anyway, may be at least replace it with a regular checkbox.
5. icons/*-actions-subtask-new-ktimetracker. This icon does not match Breeze
theme.
It is used for the "Add Subtask..." action. A similar action "Add Task" (adds
top-level task) uses the standard icon "document-new" which is already present
in Breeze themes.
6. icons/*-apps-ktimetracker. Application icon.
Looks good to me, however you might say it looks old.
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