# Organization of Segment Editor effects into Categories

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/organization-of-segment-editor-effects-into-categories/19208>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** segmentation, gui\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 1:21pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/organization-of-segment-editor-effects-into-categories/19208 "2021-08-16T13:21:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/organization-of-segment-editor-effects-into-categories/19208/4 "2021-08-16T16:47:43Z")

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> [@muratmaga](#):
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> Our effect icons are too big. That’s mostly because of the the names are also included in the icons (look at the size of Fill Between Slices, Logical Operations).

I think in most cases you mean that the effect buttons can be too large at times (not the icon). This being because the text in the button makes it larger rather than the icon.

> [@muratmaga](#):
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> If this is not viable, can we remove the text from the icons, and only show up when it is hovered over?

> [@muratmaga](#):
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> If we think the actual icons do not easily explain what the function is, let’s remove the icons and only have the labels as multi line.

I do think the icons do provide some information about what the effect does, but not all the necessary information and neither does the name. The effect buttons already shows a hover tooltip that is the segment effect name, so if we want to enforce equal size segment editor effect buttons by way of equal size icons with no text shown below, then that could be possible. Other applications with various tools for image annotating, usually use an icon only, with the hover tooltip detailing both the name of the effect and also a short description of the tool. The addition of a short description in the tooltip could help if the text was removed from the segment effect button.

> [@muratmaga](#):
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> Plus, the wide icons causing the width of the module panel to increase automatically, which is I find it a very disturbing behavior.

Note that this actually happens not due to the effect button size, but rather the effect options. A specific effect options can be larger in width than others which causes the module panel to increase when it is selected. I’m not addressing that in this PR, but that is another issue that was brought up for general segment editor improvements.

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