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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to emphasize something that Jon mentioned but is easily overlooked:

The icon must be authored in Inkscape.  It cannot be created in Illustrator
and saved to an SVG file for use in Inkscape.

The reason for this is that SVG files can be created in many different ways
that give the same visual look.  Some ways are straight-forward and some
are complex.  Illustrator does not attempt to make the SVG file reusable
and so its result is not easily modifiable and usually needs to be re-drawn
by another user in order to make changes.

Seth

On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 7:26 AM Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Markus,
>
> Adding a new icon is certainly possible.  There are some guidelines here:
> https://dev-docs.kicad.org/en/rules-guidelines/icon-design/
>
> In particular, the icon must be added with an appropriate SVG source file
> authored in Inkscape and with the appropriate (CC-BY-SA) license attribute
> embedded in the file.
> You can inspect any of the current icon source files to see what this
> looks like.
>
> Best,
> Jon
>
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2022 at 8:13 AM Markus Bonk <markus_bonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bevan,
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, that was helpful: the 3DPivot.png is off the table. The request
>> has been modified to use a small sphere (a neutral shape), probably the
>> same blue color.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Markus
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* bevan.weiss@xxxxxxxxx <bevan.weiss@xxxxxxxxx>
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 6, 2022 10:32 AM
>> *To:* Markus Bonk <markus_bonk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> *Cc:* kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* RE: [Kicad-developers] Icon for 3D Mouse center of rotation
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>>
>>
>> That image appears to be a version of the 3d Connexion corporate logo
>> (which I expect you would anticipate on being a Trademark item).
>>
>> As such I don’t think it would be appropriate to have it within an
>> open-source software package, it would be troublesome to get it across the
>> line on licencing, and how that licencing would be inclusive to other
>> contributors.
>>
>> i.e. would you accept someone to modify the logo to include a funny face,
>> or a emoticon poo symbol or similar?  If it were my logo I would not want
>> that, and hence would not want it to be licenced under an open source
>> licence… I would want it to remain as a defensible trademark under an ‘all
>> rights reserved’ licence.
>>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps Wayne or the other Kicad members might have a different opinion
>> on this (or legal advice contradicting my statements), but I think it would
>> be something that 3d Connexion would likely want to have their legal team
>> consider also.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bevan Weiss
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Kicad-developers <
>> kicad-developers-bounces+bevan.weiss=gmail.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> *On
>> Behalf Of *Markus Bonk
>> *Sent:* Wednesday, 6 April 2022 4:54 PM
>> *To:* Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
>> *Cc:* kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> *Subject:* [Kicad-developers] Icon for 3D Mouse center of rotation
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a request to change the icon used to represent the center of
>> rotation when using a 3D Mouse to 3DPivot.png (see attachment). Before I
>> investigate what needs doing to implement this while keeping the current
>> solution for the 2D Mouse, I wanted to query you if such a merge request
>> could be accepted.
>>
>>
>>
>> Markus
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