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Re: KiCad New Main Icon proposal

 

​thanks Simon,
I get you point. Will do my best to fix this issue.

cheers
Fabrizio
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On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> just in regards to the footprint icon, one potential issue i see with
> it is its very similar to the 3d module icon as seen in cvpcb, which
> could confuse some new users. could you not have a footprint (either
> in real world-ish colours or in pcbnew colours) a dip-6 and/or a
> soic-6 could be used and have the pads/silk/mask etc... and maybe a
> refdes?
>
> Not sure if i am making sense, but i am also not a designer :)
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 7:26 PM, Trygve Laugstøl <trygvis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 07. juli 2016 17:44, Eldar Khayrullin wrote:
> >>
> >> Sorry, I forgot to attach.
> >
> >
> > I really like this style of icons. Much less clutter and a single symbol
> > instead of a full picture.
> >
> > --
> > Trygve
> >
> >>
> >> В Четверг, 7 июл. 2016 в 6:23 , Simon Wells <swel024@xxxxxxxxx>
> написал:
> >>>
> >>> i agree, the footprint and symbol icons are nice, however i also think
> >>> the page and the pen in the schematic/pcbnew icons are unnecessary,
> >>> Simon On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 2:58 AM, Marco Ciampa <ciampix@xxxxxxxxx
> >>> <mailto:ciampix@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>     On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 04:06:37PM +0200, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
> >>>
> >>>         Hello, Following and integrating the feedback from all you
> >>>         guys, here we have some new main kicad icons. Looks is still
> >>>         not completely polished. To make Wayne happy I have even
> >>>         included a pretty pen in some main icons ! ;-)
> >>>
> >>>     my 0.00000002 cents In my humble opinion, either the pen is drawn
> >>>     as in the act of writing (as it was for old KiCad icons and is
> >>>     Openstreetmap JOSM for an example: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/)
> >>>     or it is just distracting... The new component and footprint icons
> >>>     are great though... -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but
> >>>     you might not get it. ------------------------ GNU/Linux User
> >>>     #78271 FSFE fellow #364 ------------------------
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