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replace text buttons with icons

1 Requirements

ILIAS got (too) many buttons which are textbased. This design brings many disadvantages:

• less space für (mobile) design
• many language variables where every administrator/developer has to take care about
• textbased design + textbased elearning content = deflect the learner from the important elearning content

For these reason, i want to suggest to replace many buttons with well known icons. It would make the whole design more slim and clear.

Especially text buttons which

• are visible to the users
• the possible symbolic icons are well known and standard on other websites

Examples:

- save
- cancel
- new (thread/mail/page...)
- search
- edit
- delete
- send
- attach
- upload
etc.


On http://iconmonstr.com you can get an idea which text could be replaced with an symbol. (of course we can't use these symbols ;-))

Of course, not all buttons can be replaced - but there are many buttons which should be replaced using icons urgently.

2 Additional Information

• Idea / concept: Joel Hesse, Douglas Informatik & Service GmbH
  
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3 Discussion

JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], Dec 07, 2015: We reject this request as we see no chance to find a clear visual representation for all the different actions in ILIAS that are currently presented as text. We have changed to text buttons with ILIAS 3 as result of problems with icons in ILIAS 2. Every icon needs to be learned. A text button is self-explaining. There might be single cases where an icon could be used. But we are not convinced by the examples mentioned above and the possible solutions from monstricon.

4 Implementation

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