This fairly basic page describes how to use emblems.
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- R985:dccfa42359e1: Add new page on Emblems
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- R985 KDE Human Interface Guidelines
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Something very similar to emblems is the use of badges(?), a textual overlay (in the top-right?), that more then 1 new notifications, mails, ... are available. We should either add it to this page, or create a task in the HIG phab board that we need to add information about it.
| source/components/assistance/emblem.rst | ||
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| 25 | Systray icons put the emblem at the bottom-left corner first at the moment. We should explicit mention that these should or should not follow this rule. | |
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- Add information about notification emblems
- Mention the system tray
- Make some general improvements
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After looking at the volume of icons that would need changing to accommodate a switch to always using the bottom-left corner for the first emblem--both our own and also for 3rd-parties--now I'm thinking that it might make more sense to change the instruction to recommend always using the bottom-right corner, and just change KIconLoader to put the first emblem in the bottom-right corner to match the existing icons. That would be a fairly simple code change that I can do, and it would result in instant consistency for all our icons.
Also, macOS puts their emblems in the bottom right:
Doesn't seem like it's a problem for them.
Thoughts?
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Here are the phab patches for Solid and KIconThemes that adjust some things to match the new guidelines:
- D15935: Don't show an emblem for mounted disks, only unmounted disks
- D15947: Start drawing emblems in the bottom-right corner
Also, In the process, I've identified a number of other minor issues with our emblems. I have filed Bugzilla tickets for them:
- Emblem icons should have a 1px border to ensure contrast against the icon they're on top of: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399356
- A few emblem icons need adjustment to fit the style: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399357