Re: [Gnumed-devel] icons needed for sorting documents

[James Busser]

On May 8, 2006, at 1:43 PM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:12:20PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:
>
> >         http://tango-project.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery
> >         http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Icon+Guide#id392789
> Can we have those linked from our Wiki somewhere under
> "non-coder projects", "artwork" or similar ?

The potential mixture of document types could be denoted by an icon  
combining those for generic text, vs document & letter, vs html text,  
vs images, vs video

Looks like 4 of the medium-sized icons

 could be together superimposed on a generic text file type icon as  
a thin stack of drop-shadowed documents. Incidentally, might be nice  
for any of these type icons to be re-used, to make possible a filter  
based on file types!

The alternative to sorting a icon "stack" of documents could be to  
sorting the "contents of the chart". Maybe base on their "user-home"  
icon an alternative version that depicts a patient head and shoulder  
silhouette in place of the house. Sticking out of the top of the  
preferred icon template could be i)  a calendar, ii) empty checkbox- 
>checked checkbox and iii) Aa->Zz or Problem A->z

folder-open        folder-remote    folder-visiting     user-home

I notice also in the convention of the tango project that they use  
red for destructive or exit functions, green for "Go/proceed" and  
blue for "do something". Therefore maybe we overlay, onto the head  
and shoulder silhouette, a thin blue arrow as is used (when printing)  
to specify a multi-item layout (i.e. down, then diagonally up to the  
right, then down).