language icons are too big

[ramottamado]

language icons used for representing keyboard layout in the statusbar are too big, can you resize it? thanks

[palob]

@wa4557 Is that how it's supposed to look?

[andia89]

Yes. This is how they are supposed to look. There is no way (readably) fitting all language abbreviations onto a smaller canvas.

[hlechner]

Yea, it's not possible to reduce the size of the letters, however maybe the solution is not to reduce all sizes but just vertical, keeping the same letters size on it.

just draft: ->

->

[palob]

Is this after stripping 1px padding from above and below the letters?

[hlechner]

It's just a very fast draft, in this case I've changed 2px from top and 2px from bottom, Maybe it's need more tweak on it.

[palob]

Makes we wonder why use that white thing in the first place instead of just the latters. As a representation of a key?

We could implement your solution by script but maybe it looks a bit squeezed with the numbers.

[andia89]

@hlechner I think the idea is that it is supposed to look like a key, that's why it has this square shape. If we don't make it square we can remove the rectangle completely

[andia89]

Ok guys I played around a bit with these icons. Making them smaller is not doable with just scripting, and I'm not going this shitload of icons by hand :/ So we either keep them in the present form or we are doing the GNOME thing and keep the letters and remove the rectangle altogether.

I personally would keep the current icons, but removing the rectangles would be fine as well

[palob]

In GNOME those icons aren't used anymore, it's just plain text now. Are those icons needed anyway? I mean, it's just letters and maybe a rectangle along with it so there's hardly anything to carve a distinct "Numix design out from. Are there still cases where inherited original icons look out of place?