[Octave-patch-tracker] [patch #8614] New gui icons

[Dan Sebald]

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #8614 (project octave):

One issue with the "play" icon is that it is used twice in the toolbar, for
both "save and run" and "continue".  After applying your latest patch and
replacing


  _run_action = add_action (_run_menu,  resource_manager::icon
("media-playback-start"),
          tr ("Save File and Run"), SLOT (request_run_file (bool)));


with


  _run_action = add_action (_run_menu,  resource_manager::icon
("system-run"),
          tr ("Save File and Run"), SLOT (request_run_file (bool)));


results in the gears icon for the default theme icons.  That would be my
preference (actually, the file with gears icon would make more sense because
it is both save and run--but of course that is clarified as part of the tool
tip).

The fallback icons are fine with me.  Just noting that, yes, the default icons
are more immediately understandable to me.  There's a moment of hesitation
when seeing the fallback icon set.  Just a matter of what one is used to
using--but naturally it only takes a couple minutes to become familiar.

I see that there is a big-gear icon associated with "Browse your files", I
assume because that drop-down menu has a lot of different capabilities.  Is
there another more appropriate icon?  I can't think of one.  A lot of the
actions there are associated with "path".  What are "Show Octave directory"
and "Set Octave directory" intended to do?  They are greyed even if I select
one of the directories in the file system list.

Also, note that next to the big-gear icon is an up arrow with tooltip "Move up
one directory".  At the top-middle of the main window is a similar action up
arrow.  The tool tip for that one reads "One directory up".  Consider making
those the same phrase because they are the same action.


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