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Use a large headerbar with colour icons #123

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hanaral opened this issue Mar 20, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #201
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Use a large headerbar with colour icons #123

hanaral opened this issue Mar 20, 2021 · 4 comments · Fixed by #201

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@hanaral
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hanaral commented Mar 20, 2021

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The general theme with elementary's own apps is to have a larger headerbar with colour icons or a thin header with symbolic, right now Iridium has a phat headerbar with symbolic icons, so I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity

Describe the solution you'd like
I personally find having compact headerbars with symbolic icons to be better taste if the header doesn't have more than 2 buttons
Use coloured icons for the headerbar buttons

Describe alternatives you've considered
As I mentioned you can also use a bigger header with coloured icons, which can give it some life, so that's also an option

Additional context
This app doesn't have to follow guidelines precisely, but it would be cool to see another app aside from Terminal using a more compact headerbar

Edit: I should've seen that it uses subtitles

@hanaral hanaral changed the title Large headerbar with colour icons or thin headerbar with symbolic (use a) Large headerbar with colour icons or thin headerbar with symbolic Mar 20, 2021
@hanaral hanaral changed the title (use a) Large headerbar with colour icons or thin headerbar with symbolic Use a large headerbar with colour icons Mar 20, 2021
@avojak
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avojak commented Mar 28, 2021

Thanks for the feedback! I'll have to look into this a bit more - I personally prefer the symbolic icons, however I don't want to cause inconsistencies. It might be possible to default to the color icons, but allow switching to symbolic (I think Akira does this?)

@hanaral
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hanaral commented Apr 2, 2021

I think it would be better to fit the HIG; choose one and stick with it, and rely on elementary to provide an accessibility setting that toggles smyb. icons for all headers. Again, it up to you (you aren't committing a crime by doing this lol)
My branch uses the elementary styled colour icons and it looks pretty good imo

@Suzie97
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Suzie97 commented Jul 18, 2021

I would go with hi color icons on the header bar too. It will be consistent with other elementary apps.

@avojak
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avojak commented Dec 8, 2021

Screenshot from 2021-12-07 17 46 38@2x

Using non-symbolic icons in the header bar. Also moved the + icon to an action bar in the side panel to be a bit more consistent as well. The menu is the same as before.

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