[GRASS-dev] question about icons in GRASS 7

[Michael Barton]

A question has come up about the future home of icons in GRASS 7.

Long ago, there were few icons and they lived in $GISBASE/bwidget and  
$GISBASE/etc/tcltkgrass.

As we came to have a full-fledged GUI, we had a great icon move  
several years ago that put them into $GISBASE/etc/gui/icons

Somewhere along the way, with an improvement in GRASS docs and the  
addition of graphic elements to doc pages, a set of icons is now  
recreated in $GISBASE/docs/html/icons

With wxPython, we have been experimenting with alternative icon sets  
(a 'silk' set in addition to the 'classic' GRASS set), and a new set  
is in development. At first, the silk icons were put into $GISBASE/ 
icons/silk. But this year, these were moved to $GISBASE/docs/html/ 
icons/silk.

Currently, in trunk, the legacy TclTk interface and the wxPython  
interface in 'classic' mode, uses GRASS icons in $GISBASE/etc/gui/ 
icons. When the silk icon set is selected in the new wxGUI, it uses  
the icons in $GISBASE/docs/html/icons/silk.

In the docs called from wxGUI, you can see both the classic and silk  
icons, drawn from $GISBASE/docs/html/icons and $GISBASE/docs/html/ 
icons/silk.

Martin and I agree that all the icons should be put into one place.  
The question is where. The original place identified for GUI icon sets  
was $GISBASE/etc/gui/icons. However, Martin points out that there is a  
real convenience factor for doc page creation to have them in $GISBASE/ 
docs/html/icons. In either place, we should probably have a structure  
like ../icons/grass; ../icons/silk; ../icons/newgrass; etc.

I have no problem with the $GISBASE/docs/html/icons location but  
wanted to see if there are any other considerations we should keep in  
mind as to where the GRASS 7 icon archive should live.

Michael
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School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University
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