Re: Diropen toolbar icon

[Jan D.]

Juri Linkov wrote:

> > > Sorry, but I think this Up icon looks out of place when compared to
> > > Next and Previous icons.  Next and Previous icons have arrows on the
> > > paper sheet in Portrait mode, but Up icon is rotated to Landscape mode.
> > > Could you leave the paper in Portrait mode, and to rotate only the arrow?
> > >      
> > I've fixed that now.
> >    
>
> Thanks.  Now Up is consistent with Next and Previous.  I only wonder
> why the paper sheet on Next and Previous icons you got from the Gnome
> repository has a different look than the paper sheet in search.xpm which
> is copied from the same project?
>  

There is a difference core Gnome icons and Gthumbs.  Apparently they 
where not synched.  As I understand it, gthumb does not use these icons 
anymore.

> Also I don't understand why arrows on Next and Previous are so
> unconventional.   Usually when the arrow leads from outside to inside,
> this means that you have arrived to inside this node from either next
> or previous node, i.e. it denotes inward movement as in:
>
> http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/04/0428.html
>
> A more correct ideogram would be the arrow pointing outside to mean that
> you are leaving the current node to the next/previous node, i.e. the
> arrow denoting outward movement as in:
>
> http://www.symbols.com/encyclopedia/04/0444.html
>
> I don't know if we should fix these icons in Emacs, or to ask
> Gnome developers.
>  

I think we have to do it ourselves, if we want to do so.

> > > I also suggest to place previous/next history icons before next/prev/up-node.
> > > The reason is that in most browsers previous/next history icons are closest
> > > to the left edge of the toolbar, and the Home icon (to which next/prev
> > > are related to) are located on the right.
> > >      
> > That is an easy change.  Is this what others think also?
> >    
>
> There are currently also another inconsistency.  In the header line
> navigational keywords are in the following order:
>
>  Next: ...   Prev: ...   Up: ...
>
> But on the toolbar the order of icons is different:
>
>  prev-node   next-node   up-node
>  

Actually here I think info mode should be changed (if we shall change 
anything).  It is more common for the order to be (prev, next) than 
(next, prev) in mail readers, browsers, pdf viewers and such.  I don't 
know who okays such a change, I guess the standalone info viewer should 
change also if Emacs changes.

   Jan D.