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From: | Jim Porter |
Subject: | bug#62170: 29.0.60; the default tool bar icons are ugly to modern users and are not customizable |
Date: | Thu, 16 Mar 2023 12:36:15 -0700 |
Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com> writes:Alternatively, we could just throw out the current icons and replace them with a minimal and abstract design which hopefully would have mass appeal. But maybe there are people who really like the current icons and would be upset about that?I do. Every supposedly ``modern'' set of icons proposed lacks color contrast, making them indistinguishable from each other.
Agreed. I think a good general guideline is this: for icons which are always in the same spot (e.g. the navigation buttons in your web browser), color probably isn't that valuable, and possibly a distraction. As a user, you'll quickly internalize where, say, the back button is anyway.
However, Emacs toolbars change according to the mode of the active buffer, so they're likely to change many times in a session. Here, some color is very useful for letting you tell at a glance what all the buttons are.
Still, I think I agree with the overall request: the current icons could use some improvement, partly just to make sure they all feel like they belong together. (This is worse on GTK builds, where some icons come from GTK and have one visual style, but others come from Emacs and look totally different.)
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