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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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