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The hamburger is wonky! 19/10/2024 at 10:44 #158910
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Sorry it's been irking me for ages... the bottom bar of the hamburger icon is 1 pixel too low, and the gap on the right is 3 pixels and on the left it's 2 pixels... is this deliberate or can this be straightened up a bit?

Yes, it's a 1 pixel difference but that's a 20% difference here, and it really does draw the eye - or at least my eye.



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The hamburger is wonky! 19/10/2024 at 12:20 #158911
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I’m fairly sure the majority of the user interface leverages built-in windows stuff; rather than being drawn by SimSig - happy to be corrected mind
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The hamburger is wonky! 19/10/2024 at 14:14 #158912
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Yeah, this isn't from any built-in icon library...

Here's how it looks normal size and adjusted (bottom bar moved up 1px, all bars extended right 1px):




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The hamburger is wonky! 19/10/2024 at 21:08 #158913
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Could I just ask what OS you are using? I ask simply to get an idea of how this looks and measures up against different OS. I'd like a bit more information, and from others as too, to how this looks on their systems. After a bit of info has been gathered on it, then we could look at putting it onto mantis on a low priority asthetic adjustment.

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The hamburger is wonky! 19/10/2024 at 23:20 #158917
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Hap in post 158913 said:
Could I just ask what OS you are using?
Windows 11 here, but I can try it on Linux too - I'm 99% sure it's the same there though

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The hamburger is wonky! 20/10/2024 at 10:57 #158919
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Windows 11 24H2


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The hamburger is wonky! 20/10/2024 at 11:57 #158920
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HST125Scorton in post 158919 said:
Windows 11 24H2

Looks like you have your display scale set to 150%? (Settings > System > Display > Scale & Layout > Scale)

The third bar is still further away but there's anti-aliasing (blurred edges). My screen is set to 100% scale and the elements line up exactly with pixel boundaries.

Here's an unedited screenshot for comparison:

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The hamburger is wonky! 20/10/2024 at 12:22 #158921
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Here it is at 100% scale, I'm on a 4K monitor and at 150% scaling otherwise I can't see things haha.


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The hamburger is wonky! 20/10/2024 at 15:19 #158925
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Surly there are bigger fish to fry or post than the hamburger being wonky! Its not really a show stopper.

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The hamburger is wonky! 20/10/2024 at 18:46 #158930
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Any member of the community can post anything they wish to if they feel like it is something that is worth reporting. This includes, but not limited to, small asthetic discrepencies. Whether we can do something about it or not is what we will take away from such reports and we will continue to follow our normal reporting procedures and feedback to our community with an outcome.

We wouldn't and don't want to discourage anyone from feeling unable to post issues because it's not a problem to someone else.

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The hamburger is wonky! 21/10/2024 at 10:05 #158931
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Yup, it's a small issue (hard to be smaller than 1px!) but it stood out to me immediately back when the menu button was introduced, it looks rushed, and it unfairly cheapens SimSig. And (I expect) it's easy, quick, and non-urgent to fix it - no point raising minor issues if they're not proportionately easy to fix.

On a related tangent - there's a series of youtube videos by a composer and software developer, analysing the design and user experience of various engraving software (what composers use to lay out sheet music). I'm not a musician but they're very entertaining to watch - and he talks about the importance of icon designs a bit from 6:30 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A

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The hamburger is wonky! 21/10/2024 at 11:35 #158932
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Here's how it looks on Linux under Wine (Debian, KDE Plasma) - i.e. the icon is the same, just the framing is different



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