Application Icons

Fabian larue
Fabian larue Member Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Tech Talks

Regarding the application icons in the suite, I really find it a shame that they are all black. Whether for Maschine 2, Maschine 3, Native Access, Traktor Pro, Komplete Kontrol, and many others, all the icons are black. As a result, this makes it difficult to distinguish them quickly.
It's dark and gloomy

Comments

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,178 mod

    I just change them back to the old ones - if you are on Mac this is as easy as right clicking on the app icon, going to 'Get Info' and dragging the desired icon onto the thumbnail of the current one

  • Kubrak
    Kubrak Member Posts: 3,083 Expert
    edited November 2024

    I haven't tried, but it should be possible to change the icon also on Win. I also belong to the group of people who think that new icons are real, real bad. It looks like CEO's baby has created them, not profesional designer…. I cannot imagine anyone would be willing to pay to profesional designer for such a ******.

    If NI wanted make a new look, they could update look of old icons. It would be 'acceptable' to make them blacke and white, if desired and with more morern look, but still recognizable at the first sight.

    The designer absolutely overlooked, that most of population on earth does not use latin alphabet. Imagine, NI would be chineese company and decided to use chineese symbols on icons….

    Icon is graphical label and should be understandable without knowing alphabet.

  • PK The DJ
    PK The DJ Member Posts: 2,077 Expert

    I agree, the previous icons with their separate shapes and colours made it easy to tell them apart, which is helpful for the end user, especially if visually impaired.

    The same thing was mentioned when they first started introducing the new ones, but I guess because presumably they'd paid to have them done, they remained the same.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,178 mod

    Yes they are dreadful, so many times I’ve clicked on the wrong one by mistake because they are almost indistinguishable

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