Re: icons of floating widgets in gui

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 10/30/2012 03:01 PM, Torsten wrote:
> On 30.10.2012 20:19, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> > On 10/30/2012 02:05 PM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> >
> > > OK. Nice! No wonder I had no idea what you were talking about in your
> > > initial post. I guess I personally would sort of like different icons
> > > for the editor, etc. because otherwise it looks like multiple copies of
> > > octave in the workspace bar at the bottom of the screen. Can the icon be
> > > altered slightly so that one still associates it with Octave but can
> > > still tell it isn't the main window?
> >
> > But I'm not sure about a completely different icon, as in the case of
> > the terminal window that you pointed out.  That could get to be too much
> > and confused with similar icons from different applications.  Instead,
> > could the Octave icon be used as a backdrop and then maybe put a letter
> > on top in black or green like 'e' for editor, 'w' for workspace, 'c' for
> > command window, 'd' for directory window?
> >
> > Some other idea?
> >
> > Dan
>
> The terminal icon is the one used so far. The patch mentioned changes it
> to the octave logo in order to associate it clearly with octave.
>
> Concerning the new icons I thought of the octave logo with some kind of
> mini logo in the lower right corner. Are there some copyrights on the
> original logo or is it allowed to post an altered icons as suggestion?
>
> Torsten

That could get sort of small in the workspace menubar, but I think it 
would still be clear that the icons are different from the main icon. 
Were you thinking to convey information via a different sub-icon for 
each function, e.g., like the 'e', 'd', 'c', etc. I suggested?

Copyright?  I'm not sure.  Others?

Dan