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[fabrizio <zonkyu@xxxxxxxxx>]

jean-pierre,
no worries, I'll create all the icons you mentioned tomorrow and
submit a new patch. Mean time would it be possible for you to submit
the previous patch while you take care of the double icon_kicad.svg
deal?

Regards
Fabrizio


On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:44 PM, jean-pierre charras
<jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Le 12/09/2011 18:02, fabrizio a écrit :
>>
>> Hello,
>> the following patch does the following:
>> - fix spacing between app icons in kicad right bar
>> - several .svg icons were update (better look and coherence)
>> - hotkey list window now has the right colour and better size (it
>> would be good to automatically resize this window with its content but
>> I do not know how to do it)
>> - fix kicad left menu spacing and icon size (now 26pt)
>>
>> Not 100 % sure if this will create a problem for other OSs but I would
>> propose to consider deleting the following folders:
>> - artwork
>> - bitmaps_xpm
>>
>> and maybe:
>> - resources
>>
>> Regards
>> Fabrizio
>> PS all icons need to be rebuilt (sorry for this but when I start
>> modifying .svg files it is not easy, for me, to be smarter than CMake)
>>
>
> Some thoughts:
>
> 2 kicad icons ( icon_kicad.svg and icon_kicad2.svg ) are confusing.
> One is enough.
> Remove icon_kicad.svg and keep new icon_kicad2.svg is better
> Do not forget to rename icon_kicad2.svg to icon_kicad.svg.
> icon_kicad2.svg is better because it is more readable in 16x16 or 32x32
> pixels formats,
> i.e. when this icon appears in menus or task bar.
>
> artwork is now not needed, but I am thinking it is used by MacOSX folks.
> So I ask for them to remove this folder and use new .svg icons.
>
> bitmaps_xpm contains "old" icons.
>
> Before removing it, the Kicad doc must be updated, and it is a lot of work.
> (otherwise it is not understandable if we use new icons in a stable release,
> and the current doc, at least for new users)
> An it will be updated only when new icons are stable.
>
> In Eeschema, the icon used for annotation tool is not self explanatory.
> Can you create a better icon ( like the netlist icon for instance) ?
> The icon used to add an image in Eeschema is not good (I am not clever to do
> icons).
> Can you create a better icon ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
>
>
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