Univention Bugzilla – Bug 31411
Better recognizable buttons / icons
Last modified: 2016-05-12 14:46:59 CEST
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #31379 +++ The default icons in UMC are more or less gray in gray (with some shades of black and white). The 16×16 pixel area is also reduced by some extra gray border, which reduces the usable are to something like 12×12 pixels. This makes is very hard to create *recognizable* icons. This is especially dangerous for UVMM, since the box-icon for the "pull the plug" button to turn off a VM looks too harmless. I would appreciate a design, where buttons are better recognized as buttons and which use more colors to more easily find the hot areas.
Created attachment 5239 [details] New common UMC icons The attached file re-creates the common UMC icons directly from SVG files: They don't have the gray border any more and are thus larger than the previous set. The current icon set also uses css:hover to show colorized icons when the mouse is over the icon. This currently has the draw-back, that the normal black&white version is too dark, since the call to "convert -threashold" produces only black. Comment from Stefan: - the black is too dark - the size change changes the layout too much; needs to be checked by Designers - color: also needs to be checked
Do you have a screenshot with the changes being applied?
Created attachment 5240 [details] Comparison Screenshot top to bottom: - old - new - new+hover
Most icons do usually have a border around them, they could indeed be increased by removing the border. We could also use icons from http://iconmonstr.com .
Maybe better with UCS4 now.
(In reply to Alexander Kläser from comment #4) > Most icons do usually have a border around them, they could indeed be > increased by removing the border. > > We could also use icons from http://iconmonstr.com . In fact, we are using icons from iconmonstr since UCS 4.0.