[Qgis-developer] Criticism of lack of symbols in QGIS

[MORREALE Jean Roc]

Hi, at the moment I don't think it woulb be wise to include that much 
symbols without changing the way they are presented to user. They have 
to be sorted in categories and never loaded all at once.

Le 05/02/2012 00:07, Mayeul Kauffmann a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> This discussion came up already, but just in case this was forgotten:
> I generated a set of about 1000 svg color icons for QGIS, based on OSM
> icons.
> Available here as public domain:
>
> http://www.mediafire.com/?jiooxkbmyzgr0
>
> Sample use visible in this video:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBBYtH2svw0&t=3m26s
>
> (Customizing OSM map with osm2postgresql&  QGIS )
>
> Hope this helps,
> Mayeul
>
> Le vendredi 03 février 2012 à 23:46 -0800, Alex Mandel a écrit :
>> On 02/03/2012 09:39 PM, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>>>
>>>> FYI, I +others converted over 100 icons from pdf/font to svg in a 2 hour
>>>> sprint a few months back. We should add something to pull them into QGIS
>>>> source for inclusion. Only hold up was that I couldn't get the svg fill
>>>> stuff worked out.
>>>
>>> Very cool - are these icons the ones that you can access already
>>> via the style manager SVG options?
>>>
>>
>> No these icons are converted from public domain US government sets, as
>> of Oct 2011. They have not been incorporated into QGIS yet, but will be
>> shortly. After talking with Nathan and Gary I think we can find a way to
>> pull a copy from the osgeo svn every once in a while, say when building
>> a new release, so maybe they'll be in QGIS 1.7.4
>>
>> Alternately maybe a plugin should be made to pull them in as an optional
>> thing.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex