Paint: Some tools are 'invisible' depending on background

[mungewell]

The tool icons used in draw a single colour, therefore they become invisible when background is same colour.

For example, can not see paint pot on a red background.

[erikos]

Which draw activity is this? ATM we do not have one in Sucrose.

[mungewell]

Sorry I put wrong activity name, it should be 'Paint'.

The tool in question is 'flood fill' (paint pot), who's icon is completely red which does not show up on a red background.

In my opinion the icons should be two-tone, so that they can be seen whatever the background colour.

Mungewell.

[erikos]

Thanks for following up on this.

I am a bit unsure how to go on best with your request, and not to loose important information. Paint is not part of Sucrose, it has a component on dev.laptop.org though. You can try to file this specific bug there.

Eben, can you comment on the general aspect, the UI guidelines on how to avoid such cases?

[erikos]

Move it to the design team, to follow up.

[eben]

This is simple: Most of the necessary icons are provided as part of the default cursor theme. (They exist for pencil, brush, eraser, bucket, and color-picker) These should be used when applicable. Custom cursors should adhere to the black-fill/white-stroke used for the default set, and may optionally make use of the left_ptr_modify cursor, adding a custom icon where the tail of the arrow would otherwise be, so that the hotspot for the tool remains clear.

[alsroot]

manu is the current maintainer

[godiard]

commited to git

[godiard]

Fixed in Paint 28