Integration of recoll indexer

Manuel-Kehl / elementaryPlus

This theme is an addition to elementary OS's default icon theme. It contains icons for several third party applications that resemble elementary OS's style.

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Integration of recoll indexer #141

Open orschiro opened 9 years ago

orschiro commented 9 years ago

Recoll is a good desktop search application. It can automatically index files including their content from user-defined directories. By default it comes with a not so pretty eOS integration, i.e. it does not use the eOS icon theme and the Plank dock icon is pretty much meaningless. While the plank dock icon can be probably easily modified, can we also teach recoll to use the eOS icon theme?

Warmly,

Robert

quassy commented 9 years ago

Have you filed a report at their end for not respecting the icon theme? As this is a Qt app it will always look a bit weird anyways...

Any ideas for the icon?

bilelmoussaoui commented 9 years ago

I can symlink the toolbar icons if it's possible, do you know the icon names?

orschiro commented 9 years ago

Have you filed a report at their end for not respecting the icon theme? As this is a Qt app it will always look a bit weird anyways...

Good idea! I just did so: https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/issue/256/recoll-not-respecting-icon-theme

I can symlink the toolbar icons if it's possible, do you know the icon names?

I could find these icons:

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/recoll.png /usr/share/pixmaps/recoll.png

ghost commented 9 years ago

Hi, Recoll developper here, I guess that discussing this issue here will be more convenient than on the bitbucket page.

I'm quite open to suggestions about improving recoll appearance.

The problem I have is that most of the toolbar icons don't really match standard ones from the themes, e.g., there is probably no standard icon which I could request to represent the term explorer activation, or the search history (I'm not claiming that the current ones are nice).

While not great, the current set of toolbar icons is at least reasonably consistent. If I do request icons from the current theme only for the icons which match "standard" actions (next/prev etc.), the aspect risks being even worse than what it is currently.

Any ideas ?

orschiro commented 9 years ago

@medoc92

The problem I have is that most of the toolbar icons don't really match standard ones from the themes, e.g., there is probably no standard icon which I could request to represent the term explorer activation, or the search history (I'm not claiming that the current ones are nice).

What about the search, forward arrow, back arrows? They are fairly standard, not? Look at this example from Patheon File Manager (eOS default file manager):

quassy commented 9 years ago

@orschiro I think the problem he is seeing that if you link to generic icon themes you have 5 icons (forward, back, search, up, down) from the icon theme and 5 which you provide as fallback, and then the interface is an even bigger mess of mixed up icons.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Yes

orschiro commented 9 years ago

I see. Well, then probably there is not much we can do to better integrate Recoll.

Leave it as is, I assume?

ghost commented 9 years ago

The very nice solution would be that someone volunteers to design a Recoll icon set consistent with the eOS theme. I'd then modify the code to make the icons switchable (right now, they are set at compile time).

But I would guess that Recoll can't be the only program in this situation: any GUI with non-generic actions should have the same issue ?