Improve application icons [$50] #475

lifepillar · 2017-04-06T18:40:26Z

I apologize for the somewhat light-minded request, but… no plan to switch to vector icons? On macOS, at least, they do not look so gorgeous… (the app icon is beautiful, though).

I know that resources are tight and there are other priorities. A good-looking UI, however, may attract a wider public to KeePassXC, making it eventually more popular.

weslly · 2017-04-06T20:23:37Z

I agree. IMHO the current icon theme looks bad and outdated, I would love to see something more modern, like the elementary icon set maybe. Nuvola is ~12 years old already.

droidmonkey · 2017-04-08T21:48:35Z

I'm going to table this until 2.3.0, but I am open to seeing some suggestions and sample icon sets posted here. I totally agree the current set of icons is.... dated

lifepillar · 2017-04-09T09:23:09Z

Maybe, something among these sets: https://tagliala.github.io/vectoriconsroundup/.

lifepillar · 2017-04-09T09:39:35Z

Here, there are several open source icon sets: https://icons8.com/welovesvg.

phoerious · 2017-04-09T12:43:17Z

The icons we are currently using are from KeePass. I don't really like the myself. Neither are they especially beautiful nor do we have any high-res versions of them. 22x22px is all we have. We need to replace them at some point.

gagarine · 2017-08-12T13:12:44Z

A related note about the "add a new entry". This icon is not understandable (at least for my mum). It should have a + I guess so it' easy to understand it for "add".

This is specially perturbing because the "New database" icon do have a +.

Anyway, I think the "new database" should not be in the toolbar to avoid confusion.

gagarine · 2017-08-15T20:00:36Z

Why not taking https://github.com/mstarke/MacPass icon?

CoalaJoe · 2017-08-23T13:40:40Z

How about Material Icons?

edubxb · 2017-08-23T14:53:13Z

As a GNOME user, I really appreciate the integration with the look and feel of the desktop, so the application should use the icons provided by the theme I'm using when possible.

phoerious · 2017-08-23T18:13:17Z

That won't change. We are only talking about fallback icons.

cryptomilk · 2018-01-08T14:20:23Z

On HiDPI screens the icons look pretty horrible. It would be really great to have a new set with higher resolution icons.

mueller-ma · 2018-02-28T16:34:33Z

For openHAB I improved a script (https://github.com/mueller-ma/openhab-mdi) that generates icons from https://www.materialdesignicons.com/ (Community driven material design icon). The script renames and changes the color of the source icons.
If you want to use material icons, I can help you with that.

ArchangeGabriel · 2018-03-08T10:32:03Z

@cryptomilk HiDPI is #548, but #756 should solve it. BTW, #756 is what you are looking for @edubxb.

Use the following to run KeePassXC with the icons from the source code, ignoring the operating system's Qt icon theme: ``` KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME=1 keepassxc ``` The patch further adds a script `makeicons.sh` that re-creates KeePassXC icons from the Material Design icon set and can be used for easily updating icons in the future. Instructions are in the script. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

It's used extremely rarely, having it in such a prominent position in the tool bar isn't justified. Also, with the Material Design icons, its tool bar icon can easily be confused with "create new entry". Fixes keepassxreboot#475

wolframroesler · 2020-01-11T17:11:48Z

One more thing. Here's how it currently looks with the Material Design icons:

... at least that how it looks when system theme icons are disabled (for which I temporarily introduced an env variable that I can set during development). The regular version (as of #756), however, allows the system theme to override icons, which doesn't look too pretty:

How about introducing a check box in the settings dialog that configures whether the system icon theme is to be used or not?

Use the following to run KeePassXC with the icons from the source code, ignoring the operating system's Qt icon theme: ``` KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME=1 keepassxc ``` The patch further adds a script `makeicons.sh` that re-creates KeePassXC icons from the Material Design icon set and can be used for easily updating icons in the future. Instructions are in the script. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

It's used extremely rarely, having it in such a prominent position in the tool bar isn't justified. Also, with the Material Design icons, its tool bar icon can easily be confused with "create new entry". Fixes keepassxreboot#475

droidmonkey · 2020-01-11T17:20:36Z

I would not allow any system icons at this point

Use the following to run KeePassXC with the icons from the source code, ignoring the operating system's Qt icon theme: ``` KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME=1 keepassxc ``` The patch further adds a script `makeicons.sh` that re-creates KeePassXC icons from the Material Design icon set and can be used for easily updating icons in the future. Instructions are in the script. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

It's used extremely rarely, having it in such a prominent position in the tool bar isn't justified. Also, with the Material Design icons, its tool bar icon can easily be confused with "create new entry". Fixes keepassxreboot#475

wolframroesler · 2020-01-11T17:48:33Z

I would not allow any system icons at this point

You mean, undo #756, and behave as if KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME (the env var I introduced to disable the system icon theme, cf. #475 (comment)) was set permanently?

droidmonkey · 2020-01-11T17:59:34Z

Yes precisely. Especially if we package the icons with the executable and eliminate all the filepath nonsense in the code. You either have material icons or you don't. There is no sense in a hybrid icon look.

Use the following to run KeePassXC with the icons from the source code, ignoring the operating system's Qt icon theme: ``` KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME=1 keepassxc ``` The patch further adds a script `makeicons.sh` that re-creates KeePassXC icons from the Material Design icon set and can be used for easily updating icons in the future. Instructions are in the script. Fixes #475

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes #475

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes #475

It's used extremely rarely, having it in such a prominent position in the tool bar isn't justified. Also, with the Material Design icons, its tool bar icon can easily be confused with "create new entry". Fixes #475

With the Material Design icons, any other icons brought in through the system icon theme will look inconsistent. Also remove the KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME environment variable (which was introduced during development of the new icons to disable the system icon theme and is thus no longer needed). Fixes keepassxreboot#475

This is an experimental commit that makes KeePassXC use fixed-size PNG icons instead of relying on Qt's SVG scaling. Note that the result is not completely satisfactory (and may be system-dependent). It comes with a shell script (utils/makepng.sh) that converts the SVG files to PNG. The script contains three implementations of the SVG->PNG conversion routine, two with ImageMagick and one with Inkscape. Instructions for use are in the script's header comment. Fixes keepassxreboot#475 (after some more work).

This is an experimental commit that makes KeePassXC use fixed-size PNG icons instead of relying on Qt's SVG scaling. Note that the result is not completely satisfactory (and may be system-dependent). It comes with a shell script (utils/makepng.sh) that converts the SVG files to PNG. The script contains three implementations of the SVG->PNG conversion routine, two with ImageMagick and one with Inkscape. Instructions for use are in the script's header comment. Fixes keepassxreboot#475/keepassxreboot#4066 (after some more work).

With the Material Design icons, any other icons brought in through the system icon theme will look inconsistent. Also remove the KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME environment variable (which was introduced during development of the new icons to disable the system icon theme and is thus no longer needed). Fixes keepassxreboot#475

With the Material Design icons, any other icons brought in through the system icon theme will look inconsistent. Also remove the KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME environment variable (which was introduced during development of the new icons to disable the system icon theme and is thus no longer needed). Fixes #475

With the Material Design icons, any other icons brought in through the system icon theme will look inconsistent. Also remove the KEEPASSXC_IGNORE_ICON_THEME environment variable (which was introduced during development of the new icons to disable the system icon theme and is thus no longer needed). Fixes keepassxreboot#475

droidmonkey added the help wanted label Apr 8, 2017

droidmonkey added this to the v2.3.0 milestone Apr 8, 2017

droidmonkey changed the title ~~[Feature request] Improve icons~~ Improve application icons Apr 8, 2017

droidmonkey added the discussion label Apr 8, 2017

starksm64 mentioned this issue Jun 11, 2017

16x16 icon size is too small on higher resolution displays #636

Closed

shmerl mentioned this issue Dec 15, 2017

Add more color neutral icon set for KDE Plasma 5 #1291

Closed

marcbone mentioned this issue Jan 14, 2018

Checkboxes are tiny on Linux #1384

Closed

phoerious modified the milestones: v2.3.0, v2.4.0 Jan 28, 2018

droidmonkey mentioned this issue Oct 9, 2018

Any way to change the icons? #2375

Closed

droidmonkey modified the milestones: v2.4.0, v2.5.0 Mar 14, 2019

phoerious mentioned this issue Apr 15, 2019

Retina support for database icons #2977

Closed

droidmonkey mentioned this issue Jun 8, 2019

Version 2.4.0 breaks theming on GNU+Linux, not fixed in 2.4.2 #3231

Closed

droidmonkey added user interface and removed discussion help wanted labels Jun 8, 2019

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Show dark KeePassXC icon in the system tray menu

53eba5d

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Use Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps on all platforms

77daa31

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Show dark KeePassXC icon in the system tray menu

e569290

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Use Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps on all platforms

c438d5a

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Show dark KeePassXC icon in the system tray menu

7d64e83

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious pushed a commit to wolframroesler/keepassxc that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Use Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps on all platforms

f2d2daa

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes keepassxreboot#475

phoerious closed this as completed in #4066 Jan 11, 2020

phoerious pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Show dark KeePassXC icon in the system tray menu

2ca8dbe

for the "Toggle Window" menu item. It matches the other (Material Design) icons much better than the colored icon. Fixes #475

phoerious pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jan 11, 2020

Use Qt::AA_UseHighDpiPixmaps on all platforms

05ef937

... not only on Linux, in order to prevent icons from being fuzzy. Fixes #475

wolframroesler mentioned this issue Jan 11, 2020

Ignore system icon theme, always use our own icons #4161

Merged

wolframroesler mentioned this issue Apr 24, 2020

KeepassXC snap uses an ugly theme #4659

Closed

Provide feedback

Saved searches

Use saved searches to filter your results more quickly

Improve application icons [$50] #475

Improve application icons [$50] #475

lifepillar commented Apr 6, 2017 •

edited by droidmonkey

Loading

weslly commented Apr 6, 2017 •

edited

Loading

droidmonkey commented Apr 8, 2017

lifepillar commented Apr 9, 2017

lifepillar commented Apr 9, 2017

phoerious commented Apr 9, 2017 •

edited

Loading

gagarine commented Aug 12, 2017 •

edited

Loading

gagarine commented Aug 15, 2017

CoalaJoe commented Aug 23, 2017

edubxb commented Aug 23, 2017

phoerious commented Aug 23, 2017

cryptomilk commented Jan 8, 2018

mueller-ma commented Feb 28, 2018 •

edited

Loading

ArchangeGabriel commented Mar 8, 2018

wolframroesler commented Jan 11, 2020

droidmonkey commented Jan 11, 2020

wolframroesler commented Jan 11, 2020

droidmonkey commented Jan 11, 2020

Improve application icons [$50] #475

Improve application icons [$50] #475

Comments

lifepillar commented Apr 6, 2017 • edited by droidmonkey Loading

weslly commented Apr 6, 2017 • edited Loading

droidmonkey commented Apr 8, 2017

lifepillar commented Apr 9, 2017

lifepillar commented Apr 9, 2017

phoerious commented Apr 9, 2017 • edited Loading

gagarine commented Aug 12, 2017 • edited Loading

gagarine commented Aug 15, 2017

CoalaJoe commented Aug 23, 2017

edubxb commented Aug 23, 2017

phoerious commented Aug 23, 2017

cryptomilk commented Jan 8, 2018

mueller-ma commented Feb 28, 2018 • edited Loading

ArchangeGabriel commented Mar 8, 2018

wolframroesler commented Jan 11, 2020

droidmonkey commented Jan 11, 2020

wolframroesler commented Jan 11, 2020

droidmonkey commented Jan 11, 2020

lifepillar commented Apr 6, 2017 •

edited by droidmonkey

Loading

weslly commented Apr 6, 2017 •

edited

Loading

phoerious commented Apr 9, 2017 •

edited

Loading

gagarine commented Aug 12, 2017 •

edited

Loading

mueller-ma commented Feb 28, 2018 •

edited

Loading