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Cursors: Redesign and color zooms #1252

Closed wpkelso closed 1 month ago

wpkelso commented 7 months ago

Redesigns the zoom cursors to allow for more color and shading, and increases the material expression. I tried to match the size and placement of the original's lens, but thickened the handle quite a bit to get more room to work.

newhoa commented 7 months ago

Going by the advice in the previous conversation thread, trying to use aspects of the main theme might still apply here. If so, maybe using the edit-find magnifying glass would work in this case? Also, the zoom icons are the rounded-squares, and going by the advice here could use some better contrast.

So combining the two ideas above ends up with something like this: cursor-zoom-prop

SVGs: zoom-in zoom-out


I do find the main edit-zoom icon a bit difficult to see on dark backgrounds, though.

For the elementary-xfce set we came up with this one: edit-find

And combined with some of the other ideas: cursor-zoom-prop2

But not sure if that would be a welcomed change for the main theme or work well here.


Anyway, don't mean to step on any progress here, just wanted to throw some ideas out and add to the conversation. Love the work you've been doing @wpkelso!

danirabbit commented 7 months ago

@newhoa I love these! Please propose the magnifying glasses for the main icon theme too they're great

wpkelso commented 7 months ago

@newhoa I think the first two ideas in the last screenshot (with the plus/minus interior to the lense) are quite nice looking, and a little more legible than using the rouded-square zoom icons, even if it's more consistent with elsewhere.


Also, I did some rough explorations of the xfce color scheme applied to this PR's proposal:

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I think it's still too disconnected from everything else to really work well for the primary scheme, but I figured it was a direction worth exploring at the least

wpkelso commented 6 months ago

Somehow managed to close this while fixing some local stuff. Re-opening with some options derived from the edit-find rework

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And at 1:1

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