Make Remove Codes icon consistent with the others

John P. McCaskey

The Remove Codes icon doesn’t visually go well with the others. How about this instead:

http://www.johnmccaskey.com/Sever.png

(I am the one who designed the others in that group, years ago.)

Rintze

While we're at it, is there any interest in beefing up the Word ribbon tab? I think I'd really like labels to go with the icons, like:

http://i.imgur.com/bnDRY4e.png

adamsmith

no opinion on the Word ribbon (though wouldnt' that take up too much space?) but liking the alternate/new remove field codes icon.

aurimas

IMO the suggested icon is too cluttered. It's hard to tell what's really going on there.I think the current icon is much clearer about its function

Rintze

(I prefer the original icon as well)

John P. McCaskey

The proposed icon is the existing sync icon with a slash. It means: remove the ability to sync.

The existing chain-link one is “clearer” only if you bring knowledge of it from another application and can mentally extend that here. In Zotero the chain-link metaphor is not used for connection to a Zotero database. It is used for a hyperlink within a library item. Connection to a Zotero database on the toolbar and in the Setting tab is represented by the two curved arrows.

And neither does Word use the chain-link metaphor for fields or for unlinking them.

So that metaphor here is inconsistent with its use elsewhere in Zotero and inconsistent with existing metaphors for a citation or connection to a database.

bwiernik

Would be good to confer with the active discussions here:
https://github.com/zotero/zotero-word-for-windows-integration/pull/3

and here:
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/21451/ms-word-plugin-can-we-have-zotero-menu-in-the-ribbon/

I think that any additional changes to the Word interface should start from the changes there (larger icons, integration with References tab, more consistent UI with rest of Word).