icon: pause instead of play while running ?

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What feature do you want to see in an upcoming release?

Dear Peter, the symbol you use for the icon while the counter is running 
is a triangle, i.e. a symbol like the play. I was wondering if the pause symbol 
is more natural in this case. 

Thanks a lot for your nice sw 

_Domenico  

Original issue reported on code.google.com by domenico...@gmail.com on 12 Oct 2009 at 8:05

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Yes, I see what you mean and agree in principle. But the alternative is also a 
bit problematic.

The thing is that we can have two opinions on the meaning of the symbol in the 
menu bar. Either we can think of it as 
informational - then it should be some status icon saying that we are currently 
recording or idle. Or we can think of it as 
a suggestion of what can be done - then it can be like your suggestion.

My main issue is the play symbol (triangle), which can be seen informationally 
as "I am currently active", but as a 
suggestion to "become active". The pause symbol has the same problem.

Perhaps a green triangle when inactive, and a red circle when recording. It's 
consistent with voice recorders at least...

Also, the yin-yang symbol for "idle" is not very good. 

What I really want is the KronoX icon overlayed with mini-buttons, but I'm not 
very good at designing icons.

Original comment by peter.ljunglof@heatherleaf.se on 23 Oct 2009 at 7:58

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Original comment by peter.ljunglof@heatherleaf.se on 29 Nov 2009 at 6:56

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Original comment by peter.ljunglof@heatherleaf.se on 29 Nov 2009 at 6:56

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Fixed in r71

Original comment by peter.ljunglof@heatherleaf.se on 11 Feb 2010 at 12:11

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