[Qgis-community-team] Plugin icons

[Tara Athan]

Thanks, Tim!

The next step for the SVN user_guide directory is to replace the old 
plugin icons with the new ones.
This means your checked out directory will have eps files left over from 
the previous names.
These will be unversioned files, so however the SVN updates are done, 
they will not take care of this clean up for you.

The makefile intentionally does not delete these so that when you are 
editing the user guide and recompiling frequently, you don't have to 
wait for the eps files to be created every time.

I can think of a couple of ways to make these icon flushes less of a 
burden for us all.
A. Construct a script that wipes all eps files out of the image 
directories (core, plugins and screenies). It will only be necessary to 
run this when there has been a change in image files (in the user 
guide), and in general this should happen only once every release. The 
makefile will then start from scratch to create new eps files, but again 
this will only happen once per release.
B. Put all icons files into the user_guide image directory, rather than 
separate folders for each plugin.  The only reason I did this in the 
first place was because of the name collisions- that is solved, and it 
will be easy to identify which icon goes with which plugin directly from 
the name. This makes it easy to simply delete all eps files from the 
directory manually.

We could implement one of these or both.

Then I believe if I
1. make the necessary changes in my local checkout, (deleting old pngs 
and copying the new pngs into the right place)
2. commit (Tortoise SVN) at the folder level, with checkboxes on for all 
the png files

then this will allow everyone else to update in order to delete the old 
icons and download the new icons into their local copies.
Is this correct?

I am less sure about the Tortoise SVN procedure if I create and delete 
folders (as in plan B)- does this work the same way?

Tara

Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Tara
>
> Ok so today I did the necessary changes so all plugin icons are named
> after their parent directory. The exception is GRASS which is a more
> complicated affair since the plugin supports themes. That said there
> should no longer be any name collisions on plugin icons. Hope that
> helps.
>
> Regards
>
>   


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