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How about changing the color red on the unselect icon to something else (yellow?), so the color red is reserved for potentially dangerous operations such as deleting?

I agree

+1 for both

Thanks for your input @Tobias! Since you are raising a new issue in your second post, it would be good to open a new ticket. Otherwise this thread will probably get too confusing if we start to discuss multiple issues at once. So please open a new ticket to discuss grouping.

Hi Anita,
I suggest changing the color of "delete selected features" from yellow to blue or green (or another tone of yellow). I understand it is important to have a consistent set of icons but it would be easier to distinguish them with a quick glance.

I'm also fine with a green polygon in "delete selected features".

In fact, using the green color is more in line with what's used in the digitizing toolbars (new feature, move feature, rotate feature and delete part). Don't know if those icons are not too similar to distinguish with a quick glance. The difference will lay almost only on the small icon in the right corner. And that might become a new problem.

@Robert +1 from me. It's good to have two very different icons for these two actions. Also, since it's kept in yellow, the connection the selection concept should be quite straightforward. Thanks!

Unselect is fine but in think it needs the cursor in there to link it to select. Still not a fan of the delete though

I agree with Nathan about the unselect icon. I also think the "delete" symbol in the delete icon should be much more prominent - at the moment it still looks more like a selection tool than a delete tool. Making the red delete box larger and using a polygon shape in the background (like Anita's mockup in #11) would probably fix this.

@anita,

what do you think about the color (RGB:0 255 255) for selectionbuttons?
influences are not desirable from arcgis?

I would prefer a recycling bin over a red x. Especially on mobile devices the recycling bin seems to be the design paradigm for deleting something.

Jan Lippmann wrote:

@anita,

what do you think about the color (RGB:0 255 255) for selectionbuttons?
influences are not desirable from arcgis?

I prefer the yellow as we have now. That is already an established colour so no need to change that aspect. The select area when using the tool in the master now also matches the colour of the buttons too.

@Jan: The idea of the Arcgis icons is not bad but it would require changes to all the other select icons we are currently using. I'd like to keep work load low.

@Tobias: Do you know of a recycling bin icon which would work in the tiny space that we have available? I think "x" is quite well established for deletion.

@Nyall: +1 for having a polygon in the background of the Delete selected tool. <== @Robert would that be ok for you?

@Anita: With the current icons, the small inlet is really too small to fit a recycle-bin. I tried around a little bit but the readability is impossible.

Of course, if the interface looses a few icons, we could also make 30x30px (for a standard pixel density screen) icons which would be a boost to readability.

IMO the red bin is still better then anything with a more complex symbol. The proposed on still feels like a unselect to me and isn't much of a change. A bin is a standard delete icon in a lot of applications and is most platforms.

I see. So only a bin, no composite symbol ... Could work both in the attribute table and in the editing toolbar.

Do we already have a red bin icon anywhere which we could reuse here or do we need to make one?

Maybe similar to https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/175162/full_trash_icon#size=32

I have one I can attach. I will find it.

Me too, the "remove" icon is easier to tell apart

I have gone with a slightly different icon to the ones I posted although it's pretty much the same. The remove icon was really too much red and was a bit harsh around all the others on the row.

This is what is there now:

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I think this one scales nicely and stands out better on the edit toolbar and the attribute table.

Thanks Nathan!