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The "Remove All Terminated Tasks" action on the progress view's menu and local toolbar is using the B&W disabled icon instead of the colored one.
Why do you think?
The toolitem's border rollover indicates that the action is enabled. So does the menuitem's text.
Are you assuming that the enabled icon would be more colorful? It isn't. See Search result view.
Why is a red 'X' gray (that sounded funny)? The icon looks disabled. It is also inconsistent with the "X" icon on the Tasks View.
closing
Created attachment 12566 [details] Inconsistent icons The Tasks View uses red, while search, debug use gray, which looks disabled. Especially when the user has learned that the red icon means enabled.
The problem seems the Task View, not the Progress View.
> The problem seems the Task View, not the Progress View So you admit there is a problem, then resolve as WONTFIX? The problem is consistency. Why do you think the Red Xs are wrong and the gray is correct?
Since gray is the majority.
Red is the majority if you look at any other program which displays an X icon meaning delete. Please switch the gray icons to red.
This is no longer my problem.
Also: The action should be disabled when there are no tasks to be removed and enabled when there are. This is not in Build id: 200412011139.
adding Andrée
I thought I had already responded to this. Perhaps in another bug. Delete is red, remove is black. This is the semantic we have decided and closed on last June. re: #12 This problem is not related to the color of the icon, but to its logic. Defering to Michael.
If the X were black I wouldn't have opened this bug. But I don't understand why two actions having different text labels implies that they must have both a unique shape and color. "Cancel Task" is a red square with an outline. Guess what, so is "Terminate". Semantically they are different, but using the same icon or at least the same color makes perfect sense there, and here.
The last comment refers to operations in the progress view, task meaning background task, not tasks view.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
(In reply to comment #15) > If the X were black I wouldn't have opened this bug. But I don't understand why > two actions having different text labels implies that they must have both a > unique shape and color. "Cancel Task" is a red square with an outline. Guess > what, so is "Terminate". Semantically they are different, but using the same > icon or at least the same color makes perfect sense there, and here. Following comment #14, Delete and Remove are two different things, you "delete" a file and "remove" a search result. The basis of the color denotes the destructiveness (if that is the right word) of the operation. User has to be more careful for delete than remove. Thats the idea of adding red colored icon. Same applies for canceling a task or terminating a process. They are in red, because the user is "warned" to be a little careful on clicking on it. We don't have to warn the user for the "Remove Terminated" button. On the inconsistency of the icons in comment #6, the task view doesn't have the icon now. Debug/Progress/Search all are consistently looking with the gray icon for the remove operations. Nothing to be done here. As per the bug goes, "Remove Terminated" is a remove operation rather than delete operation and so the black icon is the right one. Marking it as won't fix.
opened bug 283235 for comment 12
Again, the icon is not black. It's RGB value (#888888) is closer to white.
