[Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] New Icons - difficult to "read"

[Duarte Carreira]

I would like to ask the "powers that be" to keep the old and trusted icons. They never failed me and the gui is quite uplifting. The new set may be technically better but is not as friendly to users.

Please keep both.

Duarte

De: Jonathan Moules [mailto:jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk]
Enviada: sexta-feira, 24 de Maio de 2013 09:59
Para: skampus
Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
Assunto: Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] New Icons - difficult to "read"

+1

i.e. The difference between the "Add PostGIS layers" and "Add SpatiaLite layers" is that one has a regular cylinder and the other has a fat-waisted hour-glass cylinder - about 20-30 pixels are different in an icon that's got 1024 pixels! I have to look at them in detail to see the differences. And there's still MSSQL and Oracle icons to be created in the new schema which using this system will only confuse things more.


Don't get me wrong, I like the style of the new icons, but they're really hard to visually differentiate.


I did a quick google and came across this:
http://turbomilk.com/blog/cookbook/icon_design/10_mistakes_in_icon_design/

The QGIS icons do all of the top three things.

Jonathan




On 24 May 2013 09:27, skampus <stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it<mailto:stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it>> wrote:
that could be a useful option.
sincerely, from my point of view, many icons are
unreadable/undistinguishable so i click them correctly only because now i
remberer relative position




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