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Console: Choose a better icon for "Minimize/Restore/Maximize Panel"?
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area: console
area: ui
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Description
Current icons:
It might be more immediately obvious if we use icons similar to VSCode's layout icons:
Here are RStudio's for reference:
EDIT: My first thought was that "Maximize Panel" was an interrupt button, and that "Restore Panel" was "Move into New Window".
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the Console panel controls described in the issue and compare their current icons with the referenced VS Code and RStudio examples. Determine a clear icon choice for minimize, restore, and maximize actions; done when the updated controls are visually distinct and their meanings are immediately understandable.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- design, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100