Adam_D Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 It's not a small request, I know, but I'd love to see the UI receive a little more love - such as more options regarding padding on toolbars. CorelDraw I recall being awesome at allowing you to refine this. But mostly I'd love to see the cartoony icons abandoned. Flatten them out and simplify them. I did a quick mockup that I would call far from ideal, but I'd happily use these over the existing icons, which just look too cute and dated for my tastes. It's not really too many icons either - I rather like most of the top-bar icons, but the basic tools like the pen, hand (I may be overly sensitive, but it particularly bugs me that its coloring is race-specific), magnifying glass, etc don't feel like they belong in modern, professional design software. Jowday, Cuando and Glicky 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted June 19, 2019 Share Posted June 19, 2019 Agreed Cuando 1 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glicky Posted June 20, 2019 Share Posted June 20, 2019 On 6/17/2019 at 10:49 PM, Adam_D said: but the basic tools like the pen, hand (I may be overly sensitive, but it particularly bugs me that its coloring is race-specific), magnifying glass, etc don't feel like they belong in modern, professional design software. I agree. but please don't replace it with "flat gray icons" like Adobe, it's black and flat... i'm hating it. In my opinion we need colored icons, but not so colorful and blended like those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Flat professional icons please. Great mock-up @Adam_D I prefer monolitic icons - it is already an option in preferences so no panic Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Why not just replace all of the icons with simple squares? Instead of just flattening them we could simplify even further and simply use the same icon for everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glicky Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Adam_D: how did you replaced the icons? can you give us short instructions (and maybe also to upload the icons) how to do this? i want to try it out, basically just for the fun... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/17/2019 at 3:49 PM, Adam_D said: I did a quick mockup 26 minutes ago, Glicky said: how did you replaced the icons? I suspect he took a screenshot, captured the color of the background behind the icons, created new icons, and pasted them onto the screenshot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam_D Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 On 6/24/2019 at 9:44 AM, Glicky said: Adam_D: how did you replaced the icons? can you give us short instructions (and maybe also to upload the icons) how to do this? i want to try it out, basically just for the fun... Yes, as fde said, I just took a screen shot and placed some new icons atop that. made a couple icons from scratch and pulled others from the free icons at https://www.iconfinder.com/ I really don't mean to suggest using these icons, just wanted to have a quick look at the Designer UI after flattening out the icons I feel look too dated. You can have a look at the designer file I made if you care to - it's attached. designer icons.afdesign Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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