Alternative navigation icons and template

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In Opus 13, we changed the style of the built-in navigation icons (back, forward and parent/up):

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If you preferred the Opus 12 style, here's an icon set which brings that back:

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To install:

  • Download: Navigation Icons - Opus 12 Style.dis (13.4 KB)
  • Drag it to Preferences / Toolbars / Icons.
  • Move it to the top of the list (so it overrides the other icons).
  • Click OK or Apply.

Alternatively, if you prefer the Opus 13 style but want to recolor them, here is an icon set you can use as a template for doing that. (You could also use these with Opus 12 to get the new style, if you want.)

A .dis icon set is really a .zip file, so you can rename the extension to look inside them and edit the icons as needed.

Both sets contain images and XML for DPI scaling and size selection consistent with the built-in icons.

Example file content:

  • Navigation Icons - Opus 12 Style
    64.png 64
    48.png 48
    32.png 32
    22.png 22

  • Navigation Icons - White
    64.png 64
    48.png 48
    32.png 32
    22.png 22

Navigation Icons - White.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<iconset name="nav_example_white">
	<display_name>Navigation Icons - White Example</display_name>
	<copyright>(c) 2023 GPSoftware</copyright>
	<artist>Leo Davidson</artist>
	<set filename="22.png" size="small" width="22" height="22">
		<dpi base="100">
			<scale factor="100" filename="22.png" width="22" height="22" no_scale_min="0" no_scale_max="125" />
			<scale factor="150" filename="32.png" width="32" height="32" no_scale_min="126" no_scale_max="175" />
			<scale factor="200" filename="48.png" width="48" height="48" />
			<scale factor="300" filename="64.png" width="64" height="64" />
		</dpi>
		<icon row="1" col="1" name="goback" />
		<icon row="1" col="2" name="goforward" />
		<icon row="1" col="3" name="goup" />
		<icon row="1" col="4" name="refresh" />
		<icon row="1" col="5" name="home" />
	</set>
	<set filename="32.png" size="large" width="32" height="32">
		<dpi base="100">
			<scale factor="100" filename="32.png" width="32" height="32" no_scale_min="0" no_scale_max="125" />
			<scale factor="150" filename="48.png" width="48" height="48" no_scale_min="126" no_scale_max="175" />
			<scale factor="200" filename="64.png" width="64" height="64" />
		</dpi>
		<icon row="1" col="1" name="goback" />
		<icon row="1" col="2" name="goforward" />
		<icon row="1" col="3" name="goup" />
		<icon row="1" col="4" name="refresh" />
		<icon row="1" col="5" name="home" />
	</set>
</iconset>
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Post above updated to include a set with the alternative icons from Opus 12.

I also updated the White (Opus 13) set to nudge the Home icon up a couple of pixels in the larger sizes, to match changes made to the internal icons.

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Another alternative set of Navigation icons - Dual mode - Bigger than V13 set

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Garage Navigation Dual.dis (27.5 KB)

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Thank you so much for doing this for me. With 67 yr old eyes what I can see easily at a glance is getting more difficult. I only asked about it after digging through my collection of icons that I've collected over the the years and Windows DLLs looking for alternatives. I think the skinny plain line icons are a Windows 11 aesthetic and another reason I feel no compulsion to upgrade.

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Not so much Windows 11 (I can't stand how it looks either) but most web browsers have that style of button for navigation now.

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Many thanks for this info. I altered the White.dis file to change the colors of the arrows from white to black. They show up better.