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Re: KiCad New Main Icon proposal

 

What happened to the icons proposed earlire?

https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg18155.html

2016-07-10 20:04 GMT+02:00 Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>:
> thanks Simon,
> I get you point. Will do my best to fix this issue.
>
> cheers
> Fabrizio
>
> 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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