Not a huge fan of going back and forth with design decisions all the time but +1 I preferred the smaller icons we used to habe

In D19694#429341, @broulik wrote:

Not a huge fan of going back and forth with design decisions all the time but +1 I preferred the smaller icons we used to habe

Technically this isn't actually going back to anything because in the past we had small icons with tall list items--the worst of both worlds. Now we have tall list items with large icons, and this turns it into short list items with small icons. Also this hasn't been released to customers yet. If you can't do your experimenting in git master, where can you do it? :)

Though the icons are indeed pretty, and the problem with small monochrome icons has been resolved, the information density is now quite low.

When? I still get a mix of color and monochrome icons in System Settings with the git master versions of it and its dependencies.

The side bar feels better to use with a mouse with shorter items, but I don't think we should make a change like this before the problem is really solved.

I was talking about the problem of small monochrome icons in the sidebar itself, not in the tooltip. But anyway since then I fixed the tooltip too.

Any more VDG or Plasma opinions on this?

In D19694#434169, @ngraham wrote:

I was talking about the problem of small monochrome icons in the sidebar itself, not in the tooltip. But anyway since then I fixed the tooltip too.

Any more VDG or Plasma opinions on this?

I was talking about the sidebar as well, but I think I misunderstood what you were saying.

Ever since increasing the list item size to accommodate 32px icons, System Settings' sidebar has felt somehow wrong to me

Same here, I prefer this patch rather than the bigger icons. Since we're still having issues with monochrome issues showing up, obviously the question is what do we want to solve at this moment. I'd be more in favor of prioritizing reduced information density, but we definitely need more opinions and discussion on this.

The "after" version is already in the wild because of a Kirigami Frameworks change to make list items shorter, and I haven't seen any user complaints at all about it. In fact, I've seen a few positive ones. So I'm going to land this and preserve the current status quo since it seems to be working fine.