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Hi Alexander,

On 11/24/2012 11:46 AM, Alexander Wilms wrote:
Hi Kohei,

here are two versions of the three icons. I'm not sure whether the blue
'lines of text' are enough to differentioate betwwen them, so I added more
colorful versions: http://ubuntuone.com/31ia6eIVjbKsX3zTYbZ08b

Hope that works for you

Thanks a lot for your icons.  They look beautiful.

And I took some screenshots of what they looks like in the actual dialog:

http://people.freedesktop.org/~kohei/xml-source-icons-1.png
http://people.freedesktop.org/~kohei/xml-source-icons-2.png

I have some feedback on the design of the icons. Firstly, I understand that they do represent the characteristics of what XML elements (recurring and non-recurring) and attributes are in the context of an XML tree (since each icon contains multiple lines representing multiple elements), but I feel that they look a bit obscured when used in the tree control. I believe they would look better if each icon only represented single, individual element. I hope this makes sense.

Secondly, with this icon set, it's hard to distinguish attributes from elements, and I do want them to be visually distinguishable at first glance. Perhaps something like using a difference shape for attribute icon may achieve that effect. As far as the element and recurring element, they can look similar, yet with some subtle difference to give the user that they are different.

Anyway, I'm not a designer, so perhaps there are better ways to address my concerns. I'm open for suggestions.

Again, thanks for looking into this. Let me know if you have any questions and things I can clarify for.

Best,

Kohei

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Kohei Yoshida, LibreOffice hacker, Calc

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