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[suggestion] Change of sidebar icons to be more instantly recognizable

Open ianfhunter opened this issue 6 months ago • 2 comments

I sometimes find myself double-thinking the sidebar icons. I think if they were more representative, it may help.

  • The first icon for Tokens, seems more like a "profile" icon for a user account
  • The icon for Scenes is okay, but I wonder if it would be better as a map or maybe even a DM screen. The easel looks a little like a prop.
  • The props is a generic "Images" icon, I think it would be better as something like a table/vase
  • The initiative tracker, the Lobby icon and the Settings icon all seem reasonably recognizable at a glance to me.

Here's an example of a possible alternative using fontawesome (free) (not sure what icon set you are pulling from)

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I'm willing to make a PR for this if accepted. I can do some more research to get the perfect icons if we want to move forward with this (I think these are better, but maybe not best).

ianfhunter avatar Jul 09 '25 16:07 ianfhunter

I agree that its tough to figure out what each tab means, I still get tripped up on finding the lobby panel. I'm not sure new icons will solve that problem - the issue really (I think) is just that there's no text. I tried a horizontal tabs approach with text before but it was too scrunched up.

Open to ideas about design in this area, but I'd rather keep the icons unchanged at the moment to avoid disrupting existing users.

samcf avatar Jul 10 '25 04:07 samcf

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Some text would definitely remove any ambiguity. You could shove some text in here, but it would have to be quite small (font-size: x-small) and the string length would have to be kept in mind for any future tabs (Kept the icons just because i had the webinspector tab still open to fiddle around with)

ianfhunter avatar Jul 10 '25 09:07 ianfhunter