Bug 153344 - The size of icons in the status bar should be increased to at least 16px and the height of the status bar adjusted to allow this.
Summary: The size of icons in the status bar should be increased to at least 16px and ...
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Heiko Tietze
URL:
Whiteboard: target:7.6.0
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: 146579 152947
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Reported: 2023-02-03 08:01 UTC by John Mills
Modified: 2023-05-13 20:47 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Attachments
Comparison of Status bar Icons, LibreOffice, MicrosoftOffice 365, Softmaker Office 2021 (51.16 KB, image/jpeg)
2023-02-03 22:39 UTC, John Mills
Details
Writer 7.5 (left) and Word 365 status bar comparison (21.98 KB, image/png)
2023-02-10 11:18 UTC, Rizal Muttaqin
Details
verified top 7.5 and bottom 7.6 main (75.74 KB, image/png)
2023-03-09 14:28 UTC, steve
Details

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Description John Mills 2023-02-03 08:01:33 UTC
Description:
The current size (10 pixels) of icons in the status bar is too small and makes noticing contextual information more difficult. To aid usability and provide similar functionality to Microsoft Office I propose that the icons are increased to 16 pixels. This will provide a better visual experience to users and aid in improved usability. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open LibreOffice and notice that the icons in the status bar are significantly smaller than competitors such as Microsoft and Kingsoft Office.
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Actual Results:
This is always present

Expected Results:
The icons be made larger and the status bar to accommodate this improvement request.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
This has been discussed with the design community and should be considered for implementation.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2023-02-03 18:48:28 UTC
The icons are of course not 10px they are 16px with padding.

But, it could be helpful to provide an Icon Size option for the status bar--similar to the Tools -> Options -> View selectors for Toolbar, Notebookbar and Sidebar-- where UI responds to icons size of: Small (16px), Large (24px) or Extra Large (32px), or as scaled for HiDPI.

On Large icon selection, text size should probably increase and more data elements would be hidden from view on the Status bar, continuing to use current element collapse sequence.

So reasonable.
Comment 2 John Mills 2023-02-03 22:39:40 UTC
Created attachment 185098 [details]
Comparison of Status bar Icons, LibreOffice, MicrosoftOffice 365, Softmaker Office 2021
Comment 3 John Mills 2023-02-03 22:43:16 UTC
This shows the difference by default of the icons in LibreOffice, Microsoft Office and Kingsoft Office. Notice how much smaller the icons are in LibreOffice compared to the other two.

From Top to bottom:

LibreOffice
Microsoft Office
Softmaker Office
Comment 4 John Mills 2023-02-03 22:49:26 UTC
Sorry, I should say the photo compares, Writer, Word and TextMaker.
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2023-02-06 11:53:19 UTC
It depends on the icon theme how much padding is used around the icons. I'm currently on macOS and it looks okay using Karasa Jaga. So what theme do you use?
Comment 6 Regina Henschel 2023-02-06 13:27:14 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> It depends on the icon theme how much padding is used around the icons. I'm
> currently on macOS and it looks okay using Karasa Jaga.

I have tried "Karasa jaga" on Windows 10 and it does not look okay. The padding is too large, same as for other icon themes.
Comment 7 John Mills 2023-02-06 14:40:53 UTC
I have tested every one of the pre-installed icon themesin Windows and the icons in the status bar do not change, the padding is too much and should be reduced to allow the icons to be displayed larger.
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2023-02-07 03:25:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Rizal Muttaqin 2023-02-10 11:18:26 UTC
Created attachment 185281 [details]
Writer 7.5 (left) and Word 365 status bar comparison

Using latest Word 365, I use Meazure and found out its status bar height is 22 px and the tallest icon (Print Layout) is 14 px. I am not sure this will dynamically changes depend on screen resolution or not. My Windows 11 setup is 1920x1080 px with 100% zooming factor.

But I agree completely the status bar in LibreOffice should be larger
Comment 10 Heiko Tietze 2023-02-13 14:10:16 UTC
The issue has increased since I added a rectangle around the active - and had to make space for it. We could alternatively color full background.
Comment 11 Heiko Tietze 2023-02-23 11:20:19 UTC
Played with 18px icon size and it works nicely. It does not change the height of the statusbar but that's not really needed (and would make the labels look tiny).
Comment 12 Rizal Muttaqin 2023-02-24 01:50:55 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #11)
> Played with 18px icon size and it works nicely.

Please attach a capture
Comment 13 Commit Notification 2023-03-01 18:51:21 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/3e8862b98cbeac6b23a8fd08ead3386f91a4529f

Related tdf#153344 - Resize Save icon in statusbar to 18px

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 14 Commit Notification 2023-03-04 08:34:46 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f763e453263a8acfdcdf553a7c3a46ddaf476c13

Related tdf#153344 - Resize Selection Mode icon in statusbar to 16px

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 15 Commit Notification 2023-03-05 02:33:29 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/62a0eb0a604a91b84d346fb50a12f868dbf7147f

Resolves tdf#153344 - Resize View Mode icon in statusbar to 16px

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 16 Commit Notification 2023-03-07 13:52:36 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/e85aa0f9c9ab58b81b333fabbed1604a36b68747

Resolves tdf#153344 - Resize Save icon in statusbar to 16px

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 17 Commit Notification 2023-03-08 06:46:48 UTC
Heiko Tietze committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/8dc8ffff443c3b13e8782fdbaf61594056df8126

Relates tdf#153344 - Resize statusbar icons to 16px

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 18 steve 2023-03-09 14:28:27 UTC
Created attachment 185859 [details]
verified top 7.5 and bottom 7.6 main

While this may seem like a trivial and minor change it improves UX a lot. I feel like for the first time it is possible to actually see that the left icon is a disk. 🥳

Thanks for your work!
Comment 19 Commit Notification 2023-03-09 18:21:49 UTC
Rizal Muttaqin committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/560a6307a1407176c1cfce77daaba38f5cc24798

tdf#153465 & tdf#153344 Sukapura Dark with 16px status bar icons

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 20 Commit Notification 2023-03-11 03:05:24 UTC
Rizal Muttaqin committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/377d775d1f61245892dc61aa353246f985d83bae

Relates tdf#153344 - elementary: darken outline

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 21 Commit Notification 2023-03-11 22:07:20 UTC
Rizal Muttaqin committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/f5c466502a302b8e56486119e5e318fb02b479fe

tdf#153344 KJ: Unify color and reduce cursor thickness

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 22 Commit Notification 2023-03-12 02:14:39 UTC
Rizal Muttaqin committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/d887b6a6fa2a572f48498839c5a68791c3196634

Relates tdf#153344 - Sukapura: Sync outline color

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.