155242 - [RFE] Classic theme should have its own new tab icon

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, enhancement)

Description

[John Dobbins]

The Classic theme is currently using the same icon for the tabs-newbutton as the
Modern Theme.
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/themes/classic/global/icons/tab-new.gif

It should have an icon that matches the style of the other icons in the Classic
theme.

Comment 1

[John Dobbins]

Attachment: Classic style tab-new.gif

Adding a Classic styled icon for new tab.

Comment 2

[Andreas Kunz]

Related: bug 112769
John, I don't know if you read the discussion there. At least Bug 112769 Comment
#71 says that it is *not* the same icon and that the classic skin maintainer was
involved. I don't know if those people will be aware of this bug here (different
component), so you may have to contact them if you want to further discuss it...
(Personally the current button looks too modern for my taste, but your proposal
looks like a get mail button or something, not really better - just my $0.02)

Comment 3

[John Dobbins]

It may have been polished a bit, but basicly it's still the same style as
Modern's icon, and it just looks out of place in the classic theme.

Comment 4

[Minh Nguyễn]

Why not make the icon a scaled-down version of Composer's New Document button?
This way, Modern's New Tab button and Classic's New Tab button would both be a
page w/ a star on it.

Comment 5

[Andreas Kunz]

Attachment: Three proposals for really classic new tab button.

I vote strongly for the proposal in comment #4 (or something similar): modern
and classic would have a basic similarity, but classic *really* looks classic,
then.

The attachment of comment #1 seems not very suitable to me: it indicates that
there is something to be downloaded (arrow) and the green color almost cries:
"I will get red under other circumstances" - but it won't...

So here are three possible button designs based on composer's "New page"
button:
left one is just a plain copy, middle one (white) looks fresher, third one has
additional lines (imitating the modern one).
I know that these do not look as smooth as the current one, but this is
classic, folks! Modern is the place for smooth things...

If you like one of them I can of course attach the respective icon as a gif
with transparent background.
I can also add a shadow if you feel the need for it (I don't).

Comment 6

[Marcus Campbell]

I had made a Classic button suggestion on bug 112769:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=87832&action=view

Comment 7

[Minh Nguyễn]

I don't think I like the piece of paper standing straight up in mid-air. I still
like either Andreas' first or third suggestion.

Comment 8

[Jason M. Abels]

*** Bug 151927 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 10

[:Hb]

Existing buttons look better.