Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 128312
Basic IDE - command "Object Catalog" needs new icon
Last modified: 2020-03-02 10:54:48 UTC
Created attachment 86867 [details] Juxtaposing two commands SUMMARY: command "Object Catalog" on Standard toolbar deserves its own icon not a one widely used in context of graphic operations. In Basic IDE on Standard toolbar you see a command "Object Catalog". Icon assigned to it looks exactly like icon employed across AOO Components in toolbars, Navigator and item in submenu Insert (Insert > Picture > From File). (see attached screenshots: "Comparison" and "FromFile icon") Tips for both commands (Change Icon dialog): - Object Catalog: ".uno:ObjectCatalog" - From File: ".uno:InsertGraphic" Now juxtapose "From File" label with "Show Shapes", "Graphics", "Draw Objects", "Drawing Objects", "Shape". Judging by names and context they all refer to graphic operations. And have nothing in common with choosing object in Basic IDE (be it subroutine, function or dialog). (By the way: placing icon "From File" next to Insert > Picture > From File was a poor decision). IMHO you shall design an icon specific for choosing subroutine/function/dialog. One may argue that such request sounds like "nitpicking", for: - command Object Catalog has a tooltip that clearly explains what this command does i.e. "Object Catalog" or "Opens the Object dialog, where you can view the Basic objects." (if "Extended tooltips" option is ON); - AOO Help provides exhaustive description of Object Catalog; - if icon in question seems - for any reason - inadequate - one can always change it in Change Icon dialog (other icon from the list or new one imported) - "practice makes perfect" holds true even for a Basic macro programmer. But that is not the point! And as a last resort I dare to direct you to famous dialogue between Alice and Humpty Dumpty (Chapter 6. in "Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll): ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.' ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So please give Object Catalog command an icon it trully deserves. An image that conveys due meaning in context of macro edition. (a good starting point is icon you see in Objects dialog).
Created attachment 86868 [details] From File icon usage in AOO component
Created attachment 86870 [details] Examples from AOO, icons for choosing/assigning
I have placed my comment on "Blocks: 128313" as Comment 2 to issue 128313.