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missing actions/mail-mark-junk #539

Open danirabbit opened 6 years ago

danirabbit commented 6 years ago

and mail-mark-notjunk

from the fd.o spec:

"The icon for the mark as junk action of an electronic mail application."

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cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

We should decide what we want as the metaphor for this. Our symbolic version is a stop sign with an exclamation point, which is what at least Gmail also uses. Do we want to make a color version of that?

I think we want to avoid a trash can as it could be confused with actual trash. GNOME uses a wadded up piece of paper. Fastmail uses a shield, which is interesting (I think web services sometimes do that as they're using it to represent their spam filter, shielding you from junk).

cassidyjames commented 6 years ago

If it makes sense, we could also do a mail letter badged with the stop sign (mark-junk) or a check mark (mark-not-junk).

lainsce commented 6 years ago

Hailing from my PR, I've noticed most OSes or iconsets use either a trashcan with a mail envelope sticking out, or a trash recycling bag with the same envelope sticking out.

danirabbit commented 6 years ago

I think since we're in the context of mail here, we don't need to include an envelope as part of the metaphor. In Mail, these actions are currently behind the "Flag" menu and the junk folder is represented by the flag icon.

I do think it makes sense to keep the symbolic and color metaphors in sync. I wouldn't be opposed to just using the stop/exclamation as a stop gap until we came up with something better

lainsce commented 6 years ago

Oh, then it's even simpler. A simple "!" in a red or grey octagon depending on marking or not would suffice then.