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Some comments (which has been mentioned before elsewhere by others). I think the bar used for the figure is much too thick, and the toolbar buttons are just a tad too small. So it would be nice to see that adjusted as well.

I think moving away from red is a good idea, and blue makes a lot of sense. But the square icon doesn't really mean anything to me. It kinda looks like a misplaced bullet point.

It is going for 'stop' like in media players because what it is doing is
stopping the interaction, but it leaves a static png in its place.

This was driven by those comments, but i got distracted along the way.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 9:13 AM Benjamin Root [email protected]
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Some comments (which has been mentioned before elsewhere by others). I
think the bar used for the figure is much too thick, and the toolbar
buttons are just a tad too small. So it would be nice to see that adjusted
as well.

I think moving away from red is a good idea, and blue makes a lot of
sense. But the square icon doesn't really mean anything to me. It kinda
looks like a misplaced bullet point.

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Hmm, I agree that it shouldn't be an X, because, as you say, it doesn't
close the figure, it just stops the interaction. But I didn't see it as a
stop button, though. I don't know why.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:08 PM, Thomas A Caswell [email protected]
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It is going for 'stop' like in media players because what it is doing is
stopping the interaction, but it leaves a static png in its place.

This was driven by those comments, but i got distracted along the way.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 9:13 AM Benjamin Root [email protected]
wrote:

Some comments (which has been mentioned before elsewhere by others). I
think the bar used for the figure is much too thick, and the toolbar
buttons are just a tad too small. So it would be nice to see that
adjusted
as well.

I think moving away from red is a good idea, and blue makes a lot of
sense. But the square icon doesn't really mean anything to me. It kinda
looks like a misplaced bullet point.

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The FA icons are here https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

I didn't find a better one on the first pass

Perhaps power off? http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/power-off/

We also have access to the Twitter bootstrap glyphs, but i am not sure if
that is going to be used in the future IPython

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015, 3:55 PM Jens Hedegaard Nielsen <
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The FA icons are here https://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icons/

I didn't find a better one on the first pass

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Another concerted suggestion was to move the stop button down into the tool
bar. We would then have to sort out where to put the future number label.

I like power off as the icon.

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Perhaps power off?
http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/power-off/

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I like these changes. I would also like to se a smaller top bar or perhaps remove and more the button down? but perhaps that is for another PR?

Nice improvement. Thanks @tacaswell and @doraf - can't believe he's dragged you into mpl, but you're very welcome 😄

I would definitely like to reduce the bar size - it is a bit too prominent IMHO.

As has already been mentioned, maybe we can get rid of it altogether, and put the power off icon in the toolbar. We could then put a newline above the icons, and use that for title, and potentially a slightly wider tooltip area (for those long coordinate values)...