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Bassically, the icons in the shortcut bar: Look nothing like the actually icon for the tool, which shows up in factoriopedia and the cursor when you click the associated shortcut button: I've noticed the wires (copper, green, and red) recently (in 2.0.25) had this issue fixed, so I'm guessing you guys just haven't gotten around to it.
It should hopefully be a really simple fix though.

New icons suck btw, very out of place and ugly minimalistic design that isn't present anywhere else in the game or its other icons. Nothing like completely redesigning a thing people being using for the past 5 years just for the sake of it.

JigSaW wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 12:53 pm New icons suck btw, very out of place and ugly minimalistic design that isn't present anywhere else in the game or its other icons. Nothing like completely redesigning a thing people being using for the past 5 years just for the sake of it.

Just look at the other icons in that factoriopedia tab: they're all minimalist/abstract. As are most of the other GUI icons.
The old icons follow the style of in-game objects (items, buildings, etc.). Which is no longer appropriate as they are not items anymore.

Moreover, the old wire icons where hard to read, and terrible for colour blind people.

Perhaps there are better designs (the copper wire should have the same colour as the power lines, it should probably look more like a 'C' to match the other two, or better yet an 'E' and rename to 'electric wire' or something, and I think they are too blocky). The other three icons though, I don't have any suggestions, except maybe colouring them?

Just look at the other icons in that factoriopedia tab

They're all screenshots of game entites

Which is no longer appropriate as they are not items anymore

First of all, circuit wires are still items as they appear/materialize in the game world (and they aren't those thick outlined things that icon portrays them as). Secondly, as a player I don't care about this technicality, I already got used to the old ones and now I have to relearn it for no practical reason other than some guy deciding that they need to be changed cos of said technicality. New icons add nothing to the game and only cause frustration for the existing players who got used to the old ones over years of interaction with them (both old player and new ones btw cos these new icons weren't added in 2.0 but later, so even new players gotta relearn lol).

New circuit wire icons are somewhat tolerable cos they're colored but everything else is actually unreadable from the glance and not intuitive and you have wait for the tooltip to show up to see what they even do.

the old wire icons where hard to read, and terrible for colour blind people

Then make it an option to toggle for colorblind people and don't force it on non-colorblind ones.

Ok, so the other three icons do need colour, or you get bug 121732:

I will just throw this to Not a bug. There was no decision that the tool icons and shortcut bar icons should be the same. I only changed wire tools to make gfx team wakeup and do somthing because copper-wire vs copper-cable bug reports were too annoying. Given no better alternatives i decided to just reuse shortcut icons as a placeholder so the old icons are not used anymore.

boskid wrote: ↑Thu Dec 19, 2024 1:31 pm I will just throw this to Not a bug. There was no decision that the tool icons and shortcut bar icons should be the same. I only changed wire tools to make gfx team wakeup and do somthing because copper-wire vs copper-cable bug reports were too annoying. Given no better alternatives i decided to just reuse shortcut icons as a placeholder so the old icons are not used anymore.

Ahh, so that's what happend. Hopefully the GFX people will get around to improving the other tool icons, but it's certainly not a priority as both sets of icons are now readable and non-confusing. (Copper wire should still be renamed to something else though...)

My image editing skills aren't very good, this was the best I managed: (See my mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/coloured-tool-icons)