[Qgis-community-team] Re: images

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

As I briefly mentioned:

>> icons from the source tree into the manual tree. Ditto for the grass
>> icons.

But to explain better, ther grass icons live under:

src/plugins/grass/modules/

Best regards

Tim



2008/6/6 Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com>:
> Tim -I looked in
>
> qgis/images/themes/default/
>
> It does not seem to include all of the images that are needed (GRASS tools?,
> addpostjgis?)
> Is this collection still under development?
> If so, I think we need to wait to switch to these icons - otherwise there
> will be a mix of old/new or new/missing.
>
> Tara
>
>
> Tim Sutton wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tara
>>
>> One thing I would suggest is to always use the exact same icon names
>> as used in qgis/images/themes/default/ so that any future changes to
>> the icons can be sychronised to the manual simply by copying over the
>> icons from the source tree into the manual tree. Ditto for the grass
>> icons.
>>
>> with regards to ui changes, I would suggest getting hold of a snapshot
>> of the code from trunk (perhaps Marco Pasetti can help you with a
>> snapshot build for win on an occasional basis). i have already made
>> many revisions to the ui for the upcoming 0.11.0 release - mainly with
>> an eye towards visual consistancy and general cleanups. Around about
>> the 15th of this month we will enter feature freeze and I will try as
>> much as possible to refrain from making further ui changes in the run
>> up to releasing 1.0. Where such changes are unavoidable (labelling and
>> composer will be two such cases) we will try to keep you informed as
>> to what needs updating.
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On 6/5/08, Tara Athan <tara_athan at alt2is.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> After looking at Otto's revision, I think I have not been clear about
>>> which macros apply to which  GUI items.
>>>
>>> \button  - I was thinking of this one to be used when the button has no
>>> icon, just text. Save As Default is a button that appears in the Layer
>>> Properties dialog. So to reproduce the appearance of the version 0.10
>>> GUI, it would have text inside a box with slightly rounded corners, with
>>> a shadow to indicate it is clickable. The fill is a gray gradient - I
>>> don't know if this is reproducible in latex.
>>>
>>> \toolbtn - I was thinking of this one for the icons that appear in the
>>> toolbars. Per earlier e-mail, this should perhaps have 2 required
>>> arguments, the icon and the label (tooltip). The icon would have the
>>> shadow, since it is the clickable part, and the tooltip could have a
>>> yellow fill. For this to work, we need to have all the GUI icons present
>>> in the image folders. In a very quick check, I could not find, for
>>> example, the print icon, unless it appears under another name.
>>>
>>> \toolbox - This was intended for GRASS tools. In skimming through the
>>> toolbox, I see that many tools are indicated by multiple icons, such as
>>> the conversion tools. So perhaps this macro requires multiple versions
>>> to accommodate different numbers of icons. The whole line is clickable,
>>> so it would have a shadowbox around all the icons and label.
>>>
>>> \menuopt - There are two kinds of menu options - the first level has no
>>> icons (like File), the second level sometimes has icons  (like New
>>> Project). Do we need a second menuopt macro (menuopt2 ?) that also
>>> requires the icon? I am inclined to NOT include the shortcuts in the
>>> macro, even though they appear in the GUI. We can leave it to the
>>> writers choice whether to mention the shortcut, using the keystroke
>>> macros.
>>>
>>> On a more general note, I am thinking that the appearance we should try
>>> to reproduce is the non-hover version, because if a new user is scanning
>>> the GUI for something that looks like what they see in the manual, it
>>> would be misleading to show an appearance that would only match if they
>>> were hovering on the right item already.  So I am thinking for a menu
>>> option, such as File, we could have a shadowbox with gray fill and no
>>> outline.
>>>
>>> I haven't made any of these changes yet - please let me know what you
>>> think. Also, it would be helpful to know if the appearance will be
>>> dramatically different in the version 1.0 GUI (Tim?)
>>>
>>> Tara
>>>
>>> PS I haven't been able to figure out the syntax for \shadowsize - does
>>> anyone have experience with the fancybox package to know how this works?
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