https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502382
Bug ID: 502382
Summary: "Eye" icon for track visibility in Timeline, instead
of the "film" icon.
Classification: Applications
Product: kdenlive
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: User Interface & Miscellaneous
Assignee: j...@kdenlive.org
Reporter: gabcor...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Suggestion: Use the "Eye" icon for track visibility in Timeline, instead of the
"Film" icon.
Rationale behind the suggestion:
- The "eye" is a standard visibility icon used in (other software, and) other
places of the UI, like effects to control visibility, so it would be good for
UI discoverability (i.e. new users) and consistency with other uses in the UI.
- On the other hand, I understand the "film" icon is also used in the UI to
drag the video part of a clip (Project Bin/Clip Monitor), so not a visibility
function. But, still, I can see the fact that the speaker icon is used both in
Project Bin/Clip Monitor and the Timeline tracks, leads to mentally associate
the pair if icons, reinforcing the intuitive expectation of seeing one when you
see the other.
Perhaps, using a "music note" icon in Project Bin/Clip Monitor (instead of the
"speaker" one) would help decouple the two uses (independent drag vs.
visibility) with two different pairs of icons. So, eliminating the confusion
for good.
Just brainstorming it...
(there's an attached image below, showing how it would look)
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