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[Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Jan 2018 05:04, "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wish we had something resembling a policy for icons. It seems like
someone always wants to change them. We had decent icons for these
_before_, and then someone submitted new ones, and they were accepted
because... I don't know? Many of the new icons are really ambiguous and
kind of useless. Shouldn't have been merged.


This is why I'm pushing for *a* change and not *my* change, I remember how
the argument went last time, before they were silently merged.

I also note that there is a lack of consistency between similar icons. e.g.
there are many icons which incorporate an arrow but the style/shape of the
arrows varies.

For the record, I like these proposed ones. They bring back the ability
to recognize them at a glance.

On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:52:49PM +0000, kristoffer Ödmark wrote:
> I would love to see improved icons, I still never get used to them so i
read
> the tooltip, newer know which one is pcb and which one is module editor.
>
> Luckily most of the time I only need to double click the kicad_pcb file
> anyway :)
>
>
> On 2018-01-06 15:08, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> > 2018-01-06 14:15 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:jeff@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >
> >     +1
> >
> >     And I like Oliver’s proposed icons.  I’d suggest two further
> >     changes though:
> >
> >     1) The schematic icon (which Oliver didn’t change) should really
> >     use the default colours (dark red symbols, green wires).  Then
> >     there’s a stronger tie-in with the libedit icon.
> >
> >     2) I think I’d drop the dimensions from the modedit icon, and
> >     change the pad colour to the default (yellow).
> >
> >
> > The default pad color is not yellow, that is only what you see for THT
> > pads. Default pad color is green for bottom and red for top copper
> >
> >
> >     3) Projects should use the current New Project icon, rather than
> >     the application icon.
> >
> >
> > I have considered to submit a patch for this for some time, but I guess
> > it is an appropiate time to do this with a major version bump.
> >
> >
> >     4) Both the New Project and New Project from Template icons should
> >     get yellow “new” star.
> >
> >     5) New Footprint in modedit also needs the star, and the star on
> >     New Symbol in libedit made more prominent.
> >
> >     Cheers,
> >     Jeff.
> >
> >
> > >     On 6 Jan 2018, at 12:30, Oliver Walters
> > >     <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx
> > >     <mailto:oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     I think there is a need to tweak the libedit and modedit icons,
> > >     as identified below:
> > >
> > >     <Selection_006.png>
> > >
> > >     <Selection_007.png>
> > >
> > >     1. The blue 'textured' background is out of place with the other
> > >     icons
> > >     2. They are very cluttered and hard to read
> > >     3. Weirdly specific callout of dimensions and part names (out of
> > >     character with other icons)
> > >
> > >     Further, I think that the pcbnew icon could be adjusted slightly
> > >     to make it look a bit more like a PCB
> > >
> > >     Even as someone who uses KiCad on a regular basis I find myself
> > >     double checking which icon I am about to click on (and still
> > >     getting it wrong half of the time).
> > >
> > >     Below is a /**suggestion**/ of some improvements. I am not trying
> > >     to back my own horse here, I'd be happy for anyone else to
> > >     suggest a better design for any of these. But I feel that
> > >     changing these icons would be a good improvement to make before
> > >     the v5 release. There have been many people complaining about
> > >     these icons in particular, both here and on the user forums.
> > >
> > >     <Selection_008.png>
> > >
> > >     Is this a worthwhile endeavor, or are people attached to the
> > >     weird blue icons?
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