Darktable: Stars / rating should not be resized (Negatives)

[mjut]

Stars growing too big in the negatives display
I think, the stars and the rating - sitting underneath each photo - are way too big. Especially when I change the size of the negatives to bigger/less photos, the stars are enlarging too.
I am finding this not very helpful, as these huge stars are distracting from the photo itself.
I am trying to explain with the following screenshots I made:

_The size of the stars is okay when looking at a lot of photos:_

_Even by zooming in just a bit, the stars are growing:_

_With enlarging the photos even more, the stars are enlarged way too much:_

Make the stars and colour rating part of the UI
I would love to see a consistent size, no matter what zoom factor in the negatives view.
I don`t know, how to achieve this – I was messing with the css-files (in the themes folder) without finding a solution.

A look at RawTherapee
Just to explain a bit more the idea, see following screenshots taken from RawTherapee.
(Don't get me wrong, I like the Darktable view better. I just think, RawTherapee handles the zoom better..)

_When resizing the images, stars are not being resized and still looking neat:_

This is no bug
Of course – but I think, this would be an overall improvement of the look and UI of Darktable. Unfortunately, I am no developer and I have no idea where to change this.
I tried to change the css-files in the themes. But that does not do the trick...

[aurelienpierre]

The stars are drawn as Cairo objects, so the CSS won't change anything.

I have redone the styling for the darkroom, but I didn't got time for the lighttable yet. It definitely needs some clean-up and redesign too (at least to get rid of the borders and shadows).

[mjut]

Thanks for the information. I am looking forward to the new version of darktable.
I am interested in taking a look at it myself. Is this the "Cairo" you are talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics) ?
As I am a frontend developer, this is something I've never worked width..

[aurelienpierre]

Yeah, Cairo is the vector drawing from GTK project.

[Nilvus]

The stars are drawn as Cairo objects, so the CSS won't change anything.

I have redone the styling for the darkroom, but I didn't got time for the lighttable yet. It definitely needs some clean-up and redesign too (at least to get rid of the borders and shadows).

As I answer to @mjut on pixl.us for this, that's confirm what I was thinking : not related to CSS. I agree to @mjut : it's clearly one of the last thing on the UI to improve visually. unfortunately, I don't have skills on that and not time to learn them.

[aurelienpierre]

I'm working on that right now.