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

[James Busser]

On May 9, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > 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).
> Not sure I can follow ?

- overlay onto our icon an arrow something like the one below (used  
by a digital photo management app) except coloured blue

... the arrow's original context was within a print dialog, to  
instruct the layout of multiple items on a page. Ours would be to  
instruct the layout (sort order) of documents in a view. The  
alternative to this "curvy" arrow might be a *pair* of arrows, one  
pointing down and the other up, with one member of the pair solid,  
and the other dotted (implying the reverse order which we could, but  
needn't support).

So is there a preference (between a wavy arrow, or a pair of arrows)  
to denote the "sort action part" of the icons?

There is still the value of people's (Richard Terry and others')  
input into which of the following icon choices (or any other  
suggestion) would best convey documents to be sorted. So far, options  
include
- a composite stack of documents or
- the "tops" of the above, peeking out of a folder made to look like  
a clinical chart

Then we would just have the variable portion (chronologic, checked/ 
unchecked, A-z by episode name)