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Qtractor - An Audio/MIDI multi-track sequencer
https://qtractor.org
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UX - zoom controls can be improved. #311

Open dlzi opened 2 years ago

dlzi commented 2 years ago

Hi Rui,

I think the zoom controls could be improved in their appearance. It's hard to distinguish them, specially when they are grouped so near to each other.

Screenshot_20210811_144112

I noticed that you are using .png files for icons. With QT 6, I think you could easily use SVG, which would give you much more responsiveness and better looking icons.

rncbc commented 2 years ago

how could a svg make it any better when rendered to a 16x16 pixmap? mind you, the original icon is indeed a svg alright, just that it's distributed on source tree as a png. cheers

dlzi commented 2 years ago

Maybe play with colours or the icons should have less stroke, so you have more room to see the "-" and "+" signs? Anyway, just some ideas here.

oldcastlehq commented 2 years ago

Yeah..on my laptop they are quite hard to see too. Any updates on this issue?

rncbc commented 2 years ago

Yeah..on my laptop they are quite hard to see too. Any updates on this issue?

if you can hardly see them, use ctrl+mouse-wheel instead ;)

ps. i know this is going like forever, yes, the zoom-icons have been there from day-zero, when the largest screen resolution you had was, yes again, HDready (720p); even FHD was still far away then, let alone UHD (and beyond;)...

oldcastlehq commented 2 years ago

Sure, but that doesn't fix the issue. It's just a remedy :-)

rncbc commented 2 years ago

not a remedy whatsoever, there are (always been) some other means to zoom in and out--take the menus (View > Zoom) for instance...

ps. but I still believe that the mouse-wheel is the best way overall \o/

oldcastlehq commented 2 years ago

Sure. I understand, and I appreciate that there are more than one way of doing this. I just agreed with OP that the icons could look better. Anyway, thanks for making Qtractor.