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Closes https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/39183 This PR adds UI improvements to clarify the concept of "default rules" and how they separate from regular rules. This is mostly motivated by the issue linked above, where it clarified that the star icon was communicating a "favoriting" affordance, which is not correct with how rules work in Zed. When you tag/attach a rule as default, it will always be included in every prompt, together with the agent's system prompt and project rules (if they exist). Hopefully, this will make understanding better. Here's how it looks like now? https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/435d3af7-e8a6-4646-8f00-94a409bd5f42 Release Notes: - Improve rules library UI to better communicate the concept of default rules vs. regular rules.
Zed Icons
Guidelines
Icons are a big part of Zed, and they're how we convey hundreds of actions without relying on labeled buttons. When introducing a new icon, it's important to ensure consistency with the existing set, which follows these guidelines:
- The SVG view box should be 16x16.
- For outlined icons, use a 1.2px stroke width.
- Not all icons are mathematically aligned; there's quite a bit of optical adjustment. However, try to keep the icon within an internal 12x12 bounding box as much as possible while ensuring proper visibility.
- Use the
filledandoutlinedterminology when introducing icons that will have these two variants. - Icons that are deeply contextual may have the feature context as their name prefix. For example,
ToolWeb,ReplPlay,DebugStepInto, etc. - Avoid complex layer structures in the icon SVG, like clipping masks and similar elements. When the shape becomes too complex, we recommend running the SVG through SVGOMG to clean it up.
Sourcing
Most icons are created by sourcing them from Lucide. Then, they're modified, adjusted, cleaned up, and simplified depending on their use and overall fit with Zed.
Sometimes, we may use other sources like Phosphor, but we also design many icons completely from scratch.
Contributing
To introduce a new icon, add the .svg file to the assets/icon directory and then add its corresponding item to the icons.rs file within the crates directory.
- SVG files in the assets folder follow a snake_case name format.
- Icons in the
icons.rsfile follow the PascalCase name format.
Make sure to tag a member of Zed's design team so we can review and adjust any newly introduced icon.