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Re: KiCad New Main Icon proposal

 

Hi Nick,
that was my first attempt to quit the pen. People have different opinions
about what there icons should look like. I am now on a round two of
proposals.

cheers
Fab.


On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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