Small multimedia icon needs improvment

[philipzae]

The black of the audio note is making it difficult to see the icon correctly as its blending in with the black on the video reel, so a different color should be used for the audio note.

[m4u9]

Thanks for pointing it out. All category icons need to be synced with upstream eventually which on a first look i already saw they have a better icon for this one

[m4u9]

Upstream doesn't have many of the category icons at 16px nor 24px because elementary OS menu works differently, using bigger icons. For most of the small icons they use symbolic icons insetad.

I tried to adapt it but the results aren't great. Proof of concept below:

Proof of concept if we had to switch application menu to use symbolic icons for categories:

[ochosi]

The multimedia icon is a little clumsy in general, and this comes out especially at small sizes. You can also see that in the new upstream version. You have to take a second look to recognize what the icon shows (audio and video).

I'm not sure if I wouldn't simply go with the video icon - after all that is multimedia (video and audio combined) to keep the metaphor simpler.

[m4u9]

I'm not sure if I wouldn't simply go with the video icon - after all that is multimedia (video and audio combined) to keep the metaphor simpler.

How about this one then?
https://github.com/shimmerproject/elementary-xfce/blob/master/elementary-xfce/devices/16/media-optical-audio.svg

[m4u9]

Would look like this

[philipzae]

if i saw the icon without a label, i'd think it was a music CD. is the source svg not available for the current image?