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Re: Icon policy

 

Hi David,
thanks for the feedback. The patch, in particular, submitted does not
change the look of the icon, instead makes it more pleasing to the eye and
improves the chance that a new user will understand its use.

I am aware of the problem of heavy changes. That is why I try to do it with
great care. There is the problem with the documentation sync too.

Regarding the "icon theme" thing, I am not really sure I understand it but
I maybe it is a great idea.

Regards
Fabrizio





On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 12:33 AM, David Godfrey <info@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I know I mainly lurk, however occasionally I feel the need to make a
> suggestion or two. :-/
>
> As a very long time user of KiCad I understand Chris's reluctance to merge
> in every Icon set change.
>
> Changing the "look" of icons can slow down productivity if you are using
> those icons regularly as you have to retrain the brain to recognize them.
>
> Rather than simply replacing the icons, can we add an icon "theme" and
> associated dir tree with each contribution getting it's own dir in the tree.
> I say tree, as you can then have a main theme in say....
>     /icon/hi-contrast
> then specific overrides in....
>     /icon/hi-contrast/joe-blogs
>
> The joe-blogs dir may contain only some, or all of the replacement icons.
> Any that are missing are pulled from the dir layers above
>
> I'd love to be able to contribute such an enhancement, but have too much
> going on here for the next few months.
>
> On 23/03/17 00:34, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>
> I'm open to suggestion on this.  Image files are not my forte.  My main
> concerns are that we keep images reasonably consistent and try not make
> life too difficult for the devs who have to merge the changes.
>
> On 3/22/2017 11:30 AM, Chris Pavlina wrote:
>
> "[PATCH] 3 better icons" made me think of this:
>
> Every once in a while we get patches from people redesigning a bunch of
> icons. I think we should probably have some clear policy on icons so we
> can have some consistency - it makes a bit of a mess when someone
> redesigns half the icons every once in a while.
>
> Wayne? Any thoughts on this? We should probably try to coordinate icon
> edits.
>
> PS. Fabrizio, I'm not saying your patch shouldn't be merged, I haven't
> actually had a chance to look at it yet. It just made me think of a
> problem we've had for a while.
>
>
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> David G
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