[QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

[Nyall Dawson]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:57, 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.

For reference: I'm totally in agreement that we need to improve the
DEFAULT set of svg files, and that the resource sharing plugin isn't
the best solution here. It's a great solution for some use cases, but
we need to improve the out-of-the-box experience in this regard and
that means extending the default set.

> My thoughts:
> * Move the svg's into a single directory. (Though would break any
> current projects symbology using them I guess?)

Yes -- we CAN'T do this. What we've got now has to stay, in its
current structure, and without renaming.

> * 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.

We could potentially add tags to the svg files themselves to add this
information.

> * Add a search feature so the user can quickly find "museum" without
> having to guess where it has been categorised.

Big +1 to this. Especially if we also add search by tag support!

> * Clean up the current symbols by removing duplicates.

Again, we can't do this without risking breaking people's existing
projects (which is off-limits!)

> * 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?

Sounds good to me! To clarify -- are you volunteering to lead this effort?

Nyall

>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
>
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