Is it possible to change to icons instead of text in the toolbar?

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I found this

bpy.types.SpaceView3D.panel_category_icon(“Animation”, icon=‘ANIMATION’, regiontype=‘TOOLBAR’)

Guess animation is just an example. Source:

https://developer.blender.org/transactions/raw/PHID-XACT-DREV-i5q7lpwwylb6hvb/

If it is possible, do I have to link the icons from a folder to the icon=‘example’ on each tool in the toolbar?

Like
(“Create”, icon=‘Tools’
(“Create”, icon=‘Create’

Heres another example. What I want is to have it like the V2:

category_with_icons.png1047×632 46 KB


(Source: https://developer.blender.org/D75#2018)

I simply cannot read the text vertically as it is now, so I hope its possible and I hope they change this in 2.8.

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Anyone? :slight_smile:

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I like the second one a lot!, nice.

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Yes, I really hope its doable and if someone could point me in the right direction.

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It would certainly help my toolshelf, which is rather cluttered with must have addons right now. To be able to collapse them to just icons (with a mouse over hint) would be much cleaner.

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Its how they should do it in the first place. It cant be that hard to link a icon to the tools without having to rewrite the entire toolshelf. I have no what so ever experience in coding, Im just copying and pasting. If finding icons is a problem I could help there with making them in Photoshop. I could pay to get someone to do this, so we dont have to twist our necks to see what tool (or find a tool) we are working with.