Hi,

With my last svn update, I noticed a few more icons have been added to screens. I personally think the icon used in the "Remove" button in the Project Inspector is wrong.

The red icon normally associated with ERROR. For Add/Remove more applications use icons of the same colour. Blue or Green circles with
+ or - signs.

So I recommend the red icon in "Remove" button be changed to a green icon with a - sign. Thoughts?

Regards,
- Graeme -

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I forgot to attach the screenshot...

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- Graeme -

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Definitely not green. Remove is negative, and negative is red.

If you absolutely must take the same color, red or green are bad colors, since they have too much connotations.

Michael.

I think red for delete is the correct color.

Red definitely isn't associated to "error" only.

- XP, and Vista use red for the close button on each window.
- Firefox uses it for closing tabs. (cross platform)
- Internet Explorer and Firefox using a red cross to stop loading a page.
- Thunderbird uses a red cross for deleting addresses or mail
- Evolution has red buttons for stop/cancel (which is not an error indication)

I agree there are apps that use other colors for delete (some also use other symbols: trash can instead of minus).
IMHO that shouldn't say that either side is right or defining a standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Then use a neutral colour - Blue? Blue would be my preferred choice - as that is what we use in our applications. :-)

See attached screenshot for a sample... Similar styled buttons are also used in the Editor Toolbar | Configure screen. In that case, it's just blue arrow icons.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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2008/9/17 Graeme Geldenhuys

In this case, I prefer just the sign + and -

like this

They are better than current.

Btw, do you have something better that current arrow_down and arrow_up in project options?

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

I also think that the + and - are a better choice than the current one. Maybe these ones can be used ?

Michael.

2008/9/18 Paul Ishenin

You don't like my chosing? button or glyph ?

2008/9/18 Michael Van Canneyt

Changed in r16633

wile64 wrote

Changed in r16633

Ow. I thought you will replace add.png and delete.png in lazarus/images to use them in all lazarus dialogs. And, btw, why you added images to the form? We used run-time image loading for easier image change (there is no need to change all forms if we will use another image set).

for an example.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

wile64 wrote

You don't like my chosing? button or glyph ?

Glyph is too big. You can use lazarus/images/arrow_down.png and load it in run-time for future easy updates.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.

2008/9/17 wile64 :

In this case, I prefer just the sign + and - like this

And they are blue! :-) I think your example is more appropriate than the circle with a + or - sign.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Traditionally a red circle with a white minus on it means "no entry"... (road signs (in my country anyway))

So having the normal + and - sounds good to me.