Use svg icons

[ejeschke]

• Change the PNG (bitmap) icons to SVG (vector, scalable) icons
• Improve cursor handling and make scalable cursors
• Replace some icons with (hopefully) more intuitive ones

[ejeschke]

@pllim, when you get a chance can you simply review the look of the new icons and give me any feedback on them? I think they should be a bit more intuitive than the old ones.

[pllim]

I am not UX/UI designer so I don't know how legit my review is. Overall I think they look good. Thanks!

If you have "dark mode" in your roadmap, you might want to see if they can be easily inverted for dark mode. Otherwise, you can ignore this paragraph.

[pllim]

What is this one for? Looks almost transparent.

[ejeschke]

That one is a cursor, activated in 'draw' mode, which is not used by most users of the reference viewer (activated by space, then 'b'), since they can simply right-drag to draw or the plugin will offer a toggle button for move/draw/edit, etc.

But I am thinking of using it for indicating drawing in the future, and would like to have it in the cursors. I've tweaked it a bit to make it more visible in the normal range of contrast.

[pllim]

I don't see this one in the default layout. The A looks a bit off-center.

[ejeschke]

It's in the toolbar, right after reset rotation icon. Probably a lot of users use the button in the Synopsis (Info) plugin for auto cuts usually--but it is there in the toolbar.

[pllim]

This one reminds me of Instagram but I guess it is okay if there is no better icon to use.

[ejeschke]

Let me see if I can find something better.

[ejeschke]

How about this?

It would show up much smaller, of course.

[ejeschke]

If you have "dark mode" in your roadmap, you might want to see if they can be easily inverted for dark mode. Otherwise, you can ignore this paragraph.

Hmm, sounds like support for "themes" or "skins". Will consider for the future, but probably pretty low priority.

[ejeschke]

Thanks, @pllim! We can further tweak the icons as needed down the road. I will update the documentation in a separate commit, since there are some other doc changes I want to do. Several screenshots showing the toolbar need to be updated.