Created attachment 151423 [details] syse with colorful and monochrome icons SUMMARY *** The System Setting sidebar icons are colorful 48px icons, but will be used at 24px size. You can see at the screenshot, that the elements on the icons are to tiny to see. From my point of view there are two options: 1. make 24px icons which are ordinary monochrome icons 2. make 24px colorful icons Now the icons are not available at 24px size, but will be used so they have to been added. I suggest monochrome icons, cause they are easier to see and it's consistent with other breeze icons. Add 24px icons isn't very difficult. I can offer to do it.
I'm pretty sure there's colorful 22px icons already: - merge(d) request https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/merge_requests/124 ^ has a screenshot with all the icons - repo https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/tree/master/icons/preferences/22 - commit https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/breeze-icons/-/commit/264bb9a57dfec9ffc335315f53948e49ed37c6bb We haven't switched to 24px, at least yet
They're 22, not 24. And as Manuel points out, we already have pixel-optimized 22px color icons here. However it's true that in general we use monochrome icons for the 22px size. Making some and using them here too would increase consistency. But... might it look less pretty?
Created attachment 151507 [details] SySe with monochrome icons This is how SySe would look with monochrome icons. In general it's easier to make icons that are easy to recognize at 22px icon size.
It looks very monochrome. :) But not bad IMO. Maybe we should go for it. Let's discuss in the VDG room. If we do decide to go for it, please implement it in a merge request rather than pushing directly to master.
I like the monochrome version. I feel maybe the sidebar needs a background change to adapt better, but overall the suggestion makes the sidebar look more in line with what we have in other apps and also it weirdly allows for highlighting the colors coming from the kcm to the right. In my original suggestion for changes in syse, the sidebar had monochrome icons. +1
Agreed. Let's do it. IIRC You had monochrome icons prepared here, Manual, right?
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6) > Agreed. Let's do it. IIRC You had monochrome icons prepared here, Manuel, > right? Those were for the categories icons, not preferences, though I may have a few done already from playing around with both options. I'm indifferent on using monochrome or color icons, but we should probably just add it to the 2px icon update from Andy directly since I expect it to be done in a couple of months tops, and that way we avoid duplicating work. That'd also make it possible to coordinate the change with the categories icons so that Discover's categories on the sidebar are monochrome on the same release.
Sure, no objection.