[QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi all, 

I am only loosely following this discussion. 

But about the internationalization: couldn't we use the same param -
mechanism we already have for fill-color, stroke-color, opacity, etc.
and extend it to the content of <text/> elements? 

That would solve internationalization and would also be usefuly for
dynamic text in icons anyway - there might be some use cases for this
even without internationalization. 

Just an idea, 

Andreas 

On 2020-07-28 02:39, Nyall Dawson wrote:

> 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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