Not necessarily a bug.
If user is using lipsync file, it can happen too, until user set all mouth shapes.
It works as a reminder or warning that such named layer should exist.
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Got it, thanks again.
How about these two options?
- option 1: a normal layer group partially transparent
- option 2: a “warning group layer”
Any opinions? @KonstantinDmitriev @lobozamora @Khemardi @FirasH @Svarov
Maybe the second option, but with question mark ? ?
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Why not to add a little Ghost on the folder?
(<- Not necessarily this one)
Or even better, one of the Good Ghosts of our friend @nethertales !
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Here you have all the proposed options:
I can also design a ghost, but I think it’s too literal and does not represent what the “functionality” really does. 
The frowning face ghost 
@rodolforg I like Ghost Layer (option 1) but I think if it was a light grey in the same lowered opacity it would work better. Something like below:
or even dotted outline:
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I don’t see an unified answer… what should I do? 
I’m happy to say the theme is nearly finished, IMHO it’s 99% done just waiting for you to test it and get feedback.
Summing it up:
- 215 icons redesigned
- all icons have been themed (if you find any missing, please, let me know)
- future plans are to add icons to commands that now have no icons (for instance “Canvas/Options…”). BTW, I have listed them in the following image)
Download v09 from here modern_iconset_v09.zip (1,6 MB)
As commented in my first post, although under Synfig v1.5.1 Preferences there is an option to change “icon theme”, it only changes some of them, not the whole set so I suggest to test the modern icons as follows:
- browse the following path in your computer [path_to_synfig]/share/synfig/icons/
- rename /classic/ folder as /classic_original/
- uncompress the zip and place it in /icons/ folder
- you will find /modern_light/ and /modern_dark/ folder. Rename the one you want to use as /classic/
- Launch Synfig and enjoy
As a last thought, now is the moment to test how the “Icon theme” option under Preferences work as it looks like it doesn’t work properly (tested under macOS and Synfig 1.5.1)
I hope you like it!
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Hey, pablogol.
What are the icons that don’t change when using the icon theme folder?
I took a screenshot, in red the ones that even restarting Synfig doesn’t change:
The curious thing is that if I rename the folder /classic/ to /classic_bak/ and /modern/ to /classic/ then the icon theme works perfectly…
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So, may I create a Issue in Github reporting it?
Not needed anymore 
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Awesome!
I’ll try to test it so that everything goes fine 
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I finally had the time to try the fix: it works like a charm =D
Thanks
PS - Now that I could test it I have a new thing to suggest, but that’s another story, hehehe
Absolutely love the modern icon set.. did have a little trouble getting it to work with the current DEV build, but got round that by making sure none were missing from theme so it matches the classic theme for 1.5.3.
I’ve also gone and done a few changes of my own, only for the Dark though.
modern_dark_icon_theme.zip (613.5 KB)
many thanks for the great set Pablogil.
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I’m doing tests to integrate mdark theme (even the 2 v0.9 iconsets) in Unofficial AppImage builds.
No problem to switch to these themes once in the app (starting with classic theme), it works fine.
But if we leave Synfig and restart it (with mdark icons theme at startup), it will crash.
There are missing icons in the theme (and in the others also).
@pablogil could you please check the missing icons?
(org.synfig.SynfigStudio:702014): glibmm-CRITICAL **: 19:41:38.300:
unhandled exception (type Glib::Error) in signal handler:
domain: gtk-icon-theme-error-quark
code : 0
what : Icon ‘lower_bound_handle_icon’ not present in theme mdark
Wondering what other icon themes are out there? I did find another called ‘minimal’ which looked pretty nice, but I had to write a script to help quickly batch scale and convert each icon correctly from SVG to PNG.. Odd thing was the icons extensions were .png, even though they were scalable vectors, as if they were renamed, rather than exported correctly.
Hi!
The newest build I’m using is 3b7c539 with date around 23rd August 2024 and it works fine for me with the following “kit” of icons:
But lower_bound_handle_icon is not included nor designed… I would like to finish the theme with all icons but as the classic one has also some missing this got stick in nobody’s land…
How about trying to gather in one place the missing ones in the last builds, list them so that I can design them as sif and then I move to design the missing ones for my modern theme?
My original plan (and still actual) was to upload all my theme with SVG icons as a project at GitHub or if you are interested push them into the main or dev branches…
I guess this thread gets somehow related with this one too: Missing transformation icon in Synfig UI - #4 by pablogil
Right?