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FEATURE: symbolic icons for side panel user folders
Status:
RESOLVED: MOVED

Comments

Description Maurizio Galli 2019-07-07 11:31:57 CEST
Hello,
Would it be possible to implement an option for the side panel to use symbolic icons for user folders? Most file managers seem to adopt such approach and it would make the transition between dark theme and light theme smoother as GTK would automatically paint them. If not by default, it would be a nice option to have.
Comment 1 Andre Miranda editbugs 2019-07-11 04:10:22 CEST
Created attachment 8757 
proof-of-concept.diff

The attached diff is a proof of concept, it's missing the option to make this feature an opt-in and forces thunar icon factory to always load symbolic icons thus files on the main view are also affected (not intentionally).

I have tested some icon themes and the results are mixed:
- Adwaita: looks good (bold icons, same as high contrast)
- Gnome: bad contrast, light gray icons on white background
- Elementary Xfce: looks very good
- Faenza: same as Gnome
- Numix: almost same as Gnome, but with a red trash icon
- Moka: bad contrast, light gray icons on white background

I might be missing something, but symbolic icons didn't look good on most themes.
Comment 2 Andre Miranda editbugs 2019-07-11 04:11:44 CEST
Created attachment 8758 
elementary-xfce
Comment 3 Andre Miranda editbugs 2019-07-11 04:13:31 CEST
Created attachment 8759 
gnome
Comment 4 Maurizio Galli 2019-07-11 08:26:29 CEST
(In reply to Andre Miranda from comment #1)
> Created attachment 8757 
> proof-of-concept.diff
> 
> The attached diff is a proof of concept, it's missing the option to make
> this feature an opt-in and forces thunar icon factory to always load
> symbolic icons thus files on the main view are also affected (not
> intentionally).
> 

Hi Andre,

Thank you for this!

I haven't tested it yet but I will soon

> I have tested some icon themes and the results are mixed:
> - Adwaita: looks good (bold icons, same as high contrast)
> - Gnome: bad contrast, light gray icons on white background
> - Elementary Xfce: looks very good
> - Faenza: same as Gnome
> - Numix: almost same as Gnome, but with a red trash icon
> - Moka: bad contrast, light gray icons on white background
> 
> I might be missing something, but symbolic icons didn't look good on most
> themes.

Just a note about the icon themes:

The availability of symbolic icons in a theme depends on the theme itself. Adwaita and Papirus (mising in your test, and will test myself) are probably the most complete ones and I've been helping Simon with elementary-xfce adding missing ones. 

Gnome icons is now obsolete and deprecated in favor of Adwaita. 

Faenza hasn't seen an update in years.

Numix and Moka being actively maintained should be able to have such issue addressed.
Comment 5 smurphos 2019-12-09 18:17:52 CET
Hi,

Just wanted to add support for an option to use symbolic icons in the sidebar. This is in relation to Linux Mint's XFCE edition where the non-symbolic home icon prevents the devs using their first choice of side bar background colour for the default Mint theme.

https://github.com/linuxmint/mint19.3-beta/issues/41
Comment 6 Git Bot editbugs 2020-05-26 23:44:18 CEST
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Bug #15685

Reported by:
Maurizio Galli
Reported on: 2019-07-07
Last modified on: 2020-05-26

People

Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
4 users

Version

Version:
unspecified

Attachments

proof-of-concept.diff (5.51 KB, patch)
2019-07-11 04:10 CEST , Andre Miranda
no flags
elementary-xfce (15.30 KB, image/png)
2019-07-11 04:11 CEST , Andre Miranda
no flags
gnome (14.23 KB, image/png)
2019-07-11 04:13 CEST , Andre Miranda
no flags

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