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 <sabin@onegecko.com> 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. <mazelm@gmail.com>2012/3/11 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos <fitoschido@gmail.com>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 design+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/NetiquetteList 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 design+help@global.libreoffice.org 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
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