Strange Icon Appearance

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I'm getting random results when making icons for buttons.

See that this icon is off center but I checked and it's cropped perfectly center.
Icon 1

When I convert it from a windows icon to a png it is corrected.

See this png logo. When on a toolbar it seems to have alpha channel padding around it:

Icon 2
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But look that its crop is butted up to the image, so there is no added alpha channel padding around it.

Cropped
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That pic when it is on this toolbar keeps it vertically centered:
Center

But if I remove it from the toolbar the rest of the icons get pushed up to the top, vertically asymmetrical. Strange.
Off Center

2

The button is probably configured to show a label, and to place it on the left of the icon.

There's no asymmetry. The whole toolbar is shorter, since you removed the only thing that was taller than all the other elements.

It looks like you have a second file display toolbar under the main one, which makes things look asymmetrical in the screenshot. Most of it is cropped out, but if you zoom in you can see the dividing line between the two toolbars. The top toolbar has the same amount of space above and below it, and the extra space is a second toolbar underneath, at least as far as I can tell from the cropped screenshot.

3

Here's the full view of it.

When the offending 'Search' icon is on the top row:

Full View 1
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Then when it's moved down to the second row. It make the second row taller and forces the first row out of alignment:

Full View 2
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search
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4

Oh I see. There is a faint line I didn't see before. It's not out of alignment. The blue colour on the second row is the same as the first one, making it look blended. Sorry.

5

Maybe you should have used your magnifying glass :grin:

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