KipV Posted December 5, 2018 Share Posted December 5, 2018 A good part of the release notes pointed out the changes being made to to the UI in 1.7. I sure hope the tiny icons on the left hand side of toolbar get doubled in size before 1.7 gets released. Programs like Graphic and Quark are much better sized. Richard Bingham 1 Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Chris B Posted December 6, 2018 Staff Share Posted December 6, 2018 Hey KipV, This has been logged as a feature request. Thanks! Quote How to format a bug report | Learning Resources | List of V2 FAQs | YouTube Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 I personally think the size of the icons is good... the larger the icons are the more screen space they take up and the less room there is for the document you are working on... That said, it may vary for people working in different situations with different types of screens and the like so having an option to scale the icon size (either with a slider or with a "small"/"medium"/"large" choice) is not a bad idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polygonius Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 4 hours ago, fde101 said: I personally think the size of the icons is good... the larger the icons are the more screen space they take up and the less room there is for the document you are working on... That said, it may vary for people working in different situations with different types of screens and the like so having an option to scale the icon size (either with a slider or with a "small"/"medium"/"large" choice) is not a bad idea. i would hate to have big icons as god-given-default. So yeah, like in dozens others cases, some people like this flavor, behavior, setting, view... some other people like it in the opposite... so in GENERAL: there could be more options for "difficulut" questions of personalize view and workflow... But its a feature request not really part of 1.7 beta-duiscussion. Afaik this build is for fixing big bugs instead implementing new features, So please fix first eg. all the macro-bugs, as first, and after this, implement new things... And yeah, i generally would like to see that 1.8 is focused on workflow/user-settings/UI-opimization... stuff like that. Quote OSX 12.5 / iMac Retina 27" / Radeon Pro 580X / Metall: on! --- WWG1WGA WW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 Doubling the size wouldn't be make them big though. It would make them go from microscopic sized to almost approaching medium size. When I read an article on the new Photoshop I saw that they were catching up with some of the exclusive Affinity features and also adding many options for change the size of icons so if this doesn't get addressed Serif might have some problems. The first retina display on a Mac came out about 6 to 7 years ago so this ultra high res tech is actually brand new at this point. I would have expected it many years ago. The current size is also wasteful on a 27" display. Nearly half of the toolbar is just blank so it would barely be taking up any more space!! The current amount of screen space is like what... maybe 2%? So doubling it would be going up from 2% to 3%? Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 And what about people who want 2 columns, or 3 columns of tools? I agree with fde101 that a potential "small"/"medium"/"large" might be a nice future option. Future. Just now, I am glad to have ANYTHING that isn't Adobe. Richard Bingham 1 Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted December 6, 2018 Author Share Posted December 6, 2018 39 minutes ago, jmwellborn said: And what about people who want 2 columns, or 3 columns of tools? I agree with fde101 that a potential "small"/"medium"/"large" might be a nice future option. Future. Just now, I am glad to have ANYTHING that isn't Adobe. You can do two columns now. I generally don't use that format but it is currently available. Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 24 minutes ago, KipV said: You can do two columns now. I generally don't use that format but it is currently available. I think the point was that if you have larger tool icons you take up more space, but if you have larger icons and two or three columns of tools you take up a lot more space. jmwellborn and Richard Bingham 1 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polygonius Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 10 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I think the point was that if you have larger tool icons you take up more space, but if you have larger icons and two or three columns of tools you take up a lot more space. Well, but with 2 rows you can better "order" your tools, like eg the flat-fill and the gradient beside or both doge/burn beside.... However, the order and the size is an INDIVIDUAL decision... and the rest of the double-row you could use for useful zhings you highly frequented want like, standard clours, most gradients, current cloors and mybe your top 10 of brushes like here. That would speedup your workflow enorm... But as said that should be free for PERSONAL use, not a static one-size-fits-all decision, by people which cry the loudest. Quote OSX 12.5 / iMac Retina 27" / Radeon Pro 580X / Metall: on! --- WWG1WGA WW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwellborn Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 19 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I think the point was that if you have larger tool icons you take up more space, but if you have larger icons and two or three columns of tools you take up a lot more space. Precisely. Quote 24" iMAC Apple M1 chip, 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, 16 GB unified memory, 1 TB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Photo, Publisher, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.3. MacBook Pro 13" 2020, Apple M1 chip, 16GB unified memory, 256GB SSD storage, Ventura 13.6. Publisher, Photo, Designer 1.10.5, and 2.1.1. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 (4th Gen. IOS 16.6.1); Apple pencil. Wired and bluetooth mice and keyboards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomM1 Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 Don't forget the choice of larger layer thumb images. Dave.Kelly 1 Quote website Mac mini (2018) 3.2 GHz Intel Core i7 64 GB • Radeon Pro 580 8 GB • macOS Monterey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave.Kelly Posted December 7, 2018 Share Posted December 7, 2018 That would be nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 People are way over thinking this stuff. Using an extra 1% of the screen isn't worthy of this much discussion. If that extra sliver of screen space is really that important then it's time to buy a bigger monitor. More important things to talk about. Richard Bingham 1 Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polygonius Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 hour ago, KipV said: People are way over thinking this stuff. Using an extra 1% of the screen isn't worthy of this much discussion. If that extra sliver of screen space is really that important then it's time to buy a bigger monitor. More important things to talk about. Or maybe you should buy a glass! I do not want BIG icons! jmwellborn and Richard Bingham 2 Quote OSX 12.5 / iMac Retina 27" / Radeon Pro 580X / Metall: on! --- WWG1WGA WW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KipV Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 Nobody is talking about big icons. Time to catch up to 2012 high res monitor tech and now focus on issues that are worthy of discussion. Unsubscribed. Quote New Internet Book Project | Another New Website Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abstractmark Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Actually many of us do want user selectable UI and tool icon sizes as in the current Adobe Illustrator. Currently too small on 9.7 iPad and 5k iMac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJB Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I see that back in 2018 the topic of having the choice of larger icons had been 'logged as a feature request.' Is it now possible to change the size of the icons? I'm using a 27" monitor and the icons are about 1/3" across. Is this the default? Thanks abstractmark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Hi @DavidJB, welcome to the forums! I don't believe this can be changed yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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