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I agree with Nick and Andrey.
-------- Исходное сообщение --------От: Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> Дата: 07.01.18  4:28  (GMT+03:00) Кому: Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> Копия: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Тема: Re: [Kicad-developers] Libedit and Modedit Icons 
I have been intending to revert the annotate icon in eeschema to the old one, which made much more sense to me thatn the current one.

2018-01-07 1:24 GMT+01:00 Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx>:
I have attached a patchset which performs the following:

1. Revert libedit icon to previous version
2. Revert modedit icon to previous version
3. Updates pcbnew icon to look more like a PCB
4. Update colors of eeschema icon
5. Various (almost imperceptible) tweaks to a number of icons to fix graphic alignment issues

Here is a screenshot of the updated icons:





On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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