These icons inside of Krita.



Can we have some better and more readable icons.
They look like stone age fossils and the brain has to work quite hard to figure out the one needed.
Something thats colorful and is visually more detailed.

No, that's unlikely to happen. Pretty much every application, even Blender, is moving away from colorful icons to monochrome icons. I think they're fine, and they're quite new, too.

Better Icons is something very abstract. Do you mean Readable? Stylish? Bigger? Whatever?

Icon design is a hard task and has to be coherent among other scenarios like dark themes , light themes and neutral themes.
Also the trends as Boud said are going in this direction. And you can ask why? Well there is a lot of Ux documentation about this But i think in this times People who spends lot of time in front of a screen don't wan't color arround them neyther 3d effects in UI. Do i like it? Well , i am a bit against this when there are lot of icons like Blender and the icons are really small. But believe me, Krita has well designed icons. Maybe if you give some ideas and people agree with you , the amount of feedback could change that direction who knows.
I am reading this, maybe you will find interesting. https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/
If you are Icon Designer , and have ideas to improve something, welcome

I'm fine with the monochromatic icons, however these are the ones I regularly fail to locate
Maybe because they "seem" smaller than the others to me.

• "Colorize Mask Tool"
• "Smart Patch Tool"
• "Fill Tool"
• "Reference Images Tool"

Interestingly, those are the ones that were added later, and weren't part of the initial design phase.

I agreed monochromatic, flat design icons are less disturbing

Hi and good evening.

I know this is an old thread - but I'd like to support the original thread opener's request.

That's especially for the basic set of icons on the left of the drawing area.

I know that more and more applications move (back) to flat, very abstract and monochromatic icons.
I also know that this is the result of "modes" or "trends" - changing direction every few years [...] -
and that exaggerations in both directions have happened. Now, Apple and Microsoft set a trend at
some point in time, and everybody else think they should follow.

However, I feel usability has degraded. So... even if the mainstream "everybody wants" to have
flat, abstract and monochromatic icons right now - would there be a convenient way to get
an old set of icons back? Or to design one myself, if nothing else would help?

Actually, believe it or not - my brain hurts when I see the "new" icons in this style for many programs.
I don't even know why.

But I feel I'm constantly overloaded by trying to find what I'm looking for and everything I see
is some mischmasch of over-aligned and over-reduced points and lines - as if an obsessive-compulsive
personality would even have removed not only colours, but even allowable angles and everything else.

That's simply not my piece of cake. My brain works in colour, my display is hi-res, and I would be
very very happy if I could get back the more colourful, much more easily comprehensible icon world.
(Even used an oudated version of the 3D-printer Software and probably even of KDE only for that purpose.)

Thanks for any hints on how to get (back?) there for krita.
Kind regards!

Now I found this:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Kri ... t_Kiki.png

I guess that's what I'm looking for. Could I get these icons back into a new version of krita?
Or this old version of krita running with a current OS?

I also found this thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/krita/comments ... bar_icons/

So do I understand it right that I'd have to get the old and new source code,
find and replace icon definitions, and then recompile and hope for the best?
I know that in Gimp, the old icons were kept available. Would that also be possible in krita?

Regards again!

We're not going to make the old icons available, let alone maintain the set by creating new icons in that style for new tools, but you're free to make your own build with the old icons.