SUMMARY When I look at the system tray and see the icon that looks a lot like a monitor, I think that it has something to do with monitors. For example, when I want to configure screen brightness, the icon with a screen on it wins my attention over “crescent with a light bulb”, and I click it instead. At such a small size, it's hard to tell that the thing to the left of the screen represents an Ethernet cable. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Log in to Plasma 2. Establish a wired connection 3. Wait for the “network-wireless” icon to appear on the plasma-nm indicator OBSERVED RESULT It's a cyborg screen EXPECTED RESULT It's a cable, maybe with a planet next to it (aka the web) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Created attachment 164962 [details] Screenshot
Agreed, the monitor here is not super appropriate given that we're talking about a type of network, not a display device.
Same goes for the related "network-limited" icon, and all the variants of network-wired
IIRC it's *cable and the globe* in some other platform?
I will help with the icon
Created attachment 164996 [details] SampleSVGs I looked around a little bit and noticed that the wired icon is pretty much a copy of what Window has had for a long time. While that is not necessarily a bad thing, it's also one that makes me rethink what we should have. If we are talking ethernet, maybe that's the stronger focus. I found a few samples from around the web and tried to imitate the current breeze icon look and created the attached icons. Given the 22px bounding box and pixel alignment, I had to put some graphics in half pixels, hopefully they don't look too bad. For the emblems, I just copied the ones we currently use. Let me know your thoughts. If positive, I will polish the icons more and make them ready for production.
Those icons look a lot like network-rj11-female-symbolic, which we already have and depict an ethernet port. Yours look better though, so I think we could replace the existing ones with those, and keep thinking about what to do for new network-wired icons.
That would make sense. I searched around to see how others are interpreting network-wired. Is there one from these examples that seems to convey that well? I can make something inspired on that. https://imgur.com/a/YnwDmUV
I think something like the 3rd and the 6th icons from the second image would work. It might also be possible to replace the monitor with a wireframe planet on the current icon, but I couldn't make a mock-up that would look good in small sizes.
I like the 3rd one too.
Ok, sounds good! I will work on this during the weekend.
Created attachment 165317 [details] wired-network Here is a new rendition. Let me know of any edits.
That looks good to me!
Just to make sure, the icon belongs to a family of status icons that has 6 variants. I can make the variants. Should I put them all here in this ticket?
I like the proposed icon, too :)
Ultimately they're all gonna need to end up in a merge request, so I'd say do that. invent.kde.org is a better platform for code review and collaboration compared to bugzilla.
Created attachment 165329 [details] wired network variant icons Just to confirm this work for you all. Let me know and I can try my luck on a MR and see what happens.
Visually those look great! Do you think there's any way you can squeeze an exclamation point into the triangle? Maybe for the larger sizes, at least? Because keep in mind we'll need at least 16px and 22px versions of these, with 32px versions being desirable as well.
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #18) > Visually those look great! Do you think there's any way you can squeeze an > exclamation point into the triangle? Maybe for the larger sizes, at least? > Because keep in mind we'll need at least 16px and 22px versions of these, > with 32px versions being desirable as well. I think it can be done. I will try. Question, is the 16px version derived from the 22px version, or do I need to make 16px versions? Also, note that 22px lends itself to be blurry as pixels are not equally distributed. There is a chance some aspects of them look blurry.
If you mean "can I downscale the 22px version to get a 16px version", then no, it needs to be hand-made (or at least hand-altered) so it can be pixel-perfect at the 16px size. There's no reason an icon would need to be blurry at either size; if it is, it means the lines aren't pixel-aligned. If it's happening because you have a 1px vertical line that needs to be dead-center in the icon, then yeah, that would be a problem. It could be made non-blurry by changing it to a 2px vertical line.
Can you write out the list of icons needed in total and their names? Sorry for dropping this. I have been pretty busy.
network-wired network-wired- activated network-wired-activated-limited network-wired-activated-locked network-wired-available network-wired-disconnected network-wired-unavailable
Created attachment 168374 [details] icons 16px
Created attachment 168375 [details] Icons 32px
Those look good! Three things: - In network-wired-unavailable, was it intentional to use a black X instead of a red X? Usually our X badges are red. - network-wired, network-wired-active, and network-wired-available look the same (or am I just not seeing any differences?) so the latter two could just be symlinks to network-wired, right? - Could you also include 22px versions? That's the size that these will be displayed at most commonly in the panel, so it's important to have that size.
- In network-wired-unavailable, was it intentional to use a black X instead of a red X? Usually our X badges are red. Yes, because even in the current 22px it's not consistent. I can make it red if there is more red than black in the icon set. Let me know. - network-wired, network-wired-active, and network-wired-available look the same (or am I just not seeing any differences?) so the latter two could just be symlinks to network-wired, right? Yes because it seemed to me that there is no need to make one different visually than the other. Maybe there is a case for that, let me know. - Could you also include 22px versions? That's the size that these will be displayed at most commonly in the panel, so it's important to have that size. 22px versions are contained in this attachment: wired network variant icons
(In reply to Andres Betts from comment #26) > - In network-wired-unavailable, was it intentional to use a black X instead > of a red X? Usually our X badges are red. > Yes, because even in the current 22px it's not consistent. I can make it red > if there is more red than black in the icon set. Let me know. Yeah I think we should go with red here. > - network-wired, network-wired-active, and network-wired-available look the > same (or am I just not seeing any differences?) so the latter two could just > be symlinks to network-wired, right? > Yes because it seemed to me that there is no need to make one different > visually than the other. Maybe there is a case for that, let me know. Nah, seems fine, I just wanted to know. > - Could you also include 22px versions? That's the size that these will be > displayed at most commonly in the panel, so it's important to have that size. > 22px versions are contained in this attachment: wired network variant icons Ah so I see. Missed it because of the different naming style. So yeah, can you fix up the X colors? After that would you like me to submit them to breeze-icons?
Created attachment 168985 [details] Network icon with red X
That looks great!