[QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

[Saber Razmjooei]

Hi Jonathan,

If you'd like to work on it and make it happen, probably the best place
to start is opening an issue in the QGIS Enhancement Proposal:
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues

And post the link to the dev list, so that all the ideas will be collected
there and give you a clear path forward.

Kind regards
Saber

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 12:57, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com>
wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it
> really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons
> are categorised by the directory they're in, so if you want an icon to
> appear in two categories, you put the icon in there twice... and so
> that's just what has happened! I suspect the current set has simply
> accreted over time.
>
> Examples of weirdnesses:
> * The "food" and "entertainment" categories are basically identical, but
> have different icons for the same thing.
> * There are at least 7 near-identical aeroplane icons(!)
> * There's cycle parking and cycle locking, but no cycle? No car (that's
> under "gpsicons") but two taxis? Oh, and 5 (five!) aeroplanes to choose
> from, and multiple types of train. And that's just "transport".
> * "Shopping" has a hammer and a pawprint in it... well, I mean, you can
> buy those things sure, but that seems like a rather odd place to put them.
> * "landmark" seems to basically be a subset of "religion", with a museum
> and a weird icon for a "school" thrown in for good measure.
>
> I'm sure there are many more.
>
> Given the importance of a good symbol library for cartography, this
> seems like a fairly significant issue, but fortunately it's pretty
> "easy" to fix (compared to writing a data processing algorithm anyway ;-)
> ).
>
> My thoughts:
> * Move the svg's into a single directory. (Though would break any
> current projects symbology using them I guess?)
> * Use a metadata file to categorise them, so you get a list of
> categories as now and a single symbol can be in multiple categories.
> * Add a search feature so the user can quickly find "museum" without
> having to guess where it has been categorised.
> * Clean up the current symbols by removing duplicates.
> * Add the font-awesome symbols (per my thread on the User List) to fill
> in the gaps and flesh out the collection. As a bonus, it comes with
> metadata for categories and search terms (YAML files).
>
> * bonus - metadata is internationalised so "museo" (IT), "muzeu" (RO),
> etc would also work for finding that museum.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
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