Feature Requests item #1744556, was opened at 2007-06-28 02:06 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757419&aid=1744556&group_id=144022
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: User interface Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Alan Horkan (horkana) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Text lables on Tabs Initial Comment: Both Synfig and gimp[1] use icons only on tabs rather (whereas programs like photoshop or flash do have text lables). While icons are great if they can quickly and easily be recognised they can be bad if they are difficult to recongise or confusingly similar to other icons (e.g. in general it would be very difficult to tell apart icons for similar tasks such as Save, Save As, Save All, Export, or Revert). Also some of the icons in Synfig are actually words of text, "Meta", "Child", and "T" (for Timeline, which at first glance I thought stood for Text, a clock icon might have worked better). When it becomes possible to translate Synfig into other languages these bits of untranslatable text will become increasingly incongruous. Granted the tabs all have tooltips describing their function but tooltips are not immediately obvious and may be overlooked. [1] gimp includes an option to show icons and text lables (or only text lables) on tabs but it is not the default setting nor is it easily discoverable and it must be changed for each tab individually. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=757419&aid=1744556&group_id=144022 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Synfig-devl mailing list Synfig-devl@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synfig-devl
