Design decision: Make close button icons consistent
The issue
Right now the window-close icon is a red circle with a white X in it, and we use it in many places outside of the window titlebar. This is problematic for two reasons:
- We use the red color for destructive actions, but closing is not an inherently destructive action. Ideally it never should be.
- It's visually inconsistent with windows' own close buttons, which are a black X (they turn into a red circle with a white X on hover, but that's a separate topic.
However it a good thing for a significant reason: fanciness in notifications. Right now the circular timeout indicator hugs the Breeze icon and it looks very fancy.
The current situation is not ideal.
We have three options:
1. Use a black circle with a white X for all close icons:
This is implemented with frameworks/breeze-icons!348 (closed)
2. Use a black X for all close icons and don't care that notifications' timeout indicators look a little bit odd
This is implemented with frameworks/breeze-icons!349 (comment 1027178)
3. Use a black X for all close icons and then come up with a different way of showing notifications' timeout indicators
One example of an implementation is plasma/plasma-workspace!4292 (merged):
Desired outcome
I would like for us to try to select one of those three options.
Facilitator
The discussion is beginning on 12 September 2024.
Edited by Nate Graham