Consistent Direction Icon Design

[TheBabu]

In the current design of these icons, it is quite unpleasing. The current wide angle of the arrow gives the angle a rectangle feeling, which doesn't go with the more squarish and uniform icons such as the application icons and the regular icons. The home button is seems to be squished? (Compare to the regular home icon on the right) This might be an issue Thunar, but I have changed the icons to regular ones, and those are not squished so I think this might be on the icon side of things.

[palob]

This is how our respective non-symbolic icons look like

Maybe the symbolic ones should feature this sort of arrow as well?

[TheBabu]

I think if possible the arrow design should be kept the same, as you said but instead, it should match the color scheme of the previous symbolic icons. Just my opinion, however.

[palob]

Are you referring to the different colours of the next/previous icons in your screenshot? That is because you can't go 'next' in that situation. Hence the greying-out.

[TheBabu]

Let me clarify what I mean, so keeping the color schemes of the previous symbolic icons (white-ish for available , and grey-ish for unavailable) simply use the same arrow design of the non-symbolic arrows (basically taking out the blue circle).

I think both of us have the same exact idea, lol.

[Foggalong]

It's a matter of preference whether we use arrows a la Papirus or keep with chevrons a la Ubuntu, but it would be nice to use consistent designs across the two. I personally quite like the chevrons but open to switching if most people prefer arrows.

As a point of note, we did switch from wider chevrons (as now) to tighter ones in 8b6717e44606c816a62dc5c1f61604c0edcc4812 but then switched back to even wider than the original design in fce249b34518fbc3bdeed483dfb24c5c59c1468a, with no comment either time as to why it was being changed (as was often the case in the early days of Numix).

[TheBabu]

You are not entirely wrong on that angle of the arrow is really depended on personal preference.

But I would argue for the tighter arrows because it keeps with the more square-ish frames of the icons in the entire pack. (If were to draw a quadrilateral over the tighter arrow you will get a more square frame, while in the wider arrow you will get a more rectangular frame).

Additionally, back arrows in the design are more angular traditionally, googling "back button icon" in google will result in you finding a more right-angle arrow than obtuse angles. And I personally think that the tighter arrow gives more meaning to what the button does, for the reasons of tradition and just the "feel" of the tighter arrow.

I hope other people in the community and who are designing these icons feel the same.