[Qgis-developer] Cast your vote: Default icon theme for QGIS 2.0

[Radim Blazek]

Hi,
apart the discussion about default theme, it is not clear to me where
to add a new icon. Current situation:

4 themes:
* default - is used if an icon in preferred theme does not exist
* classic
* gis
* nkids - deprecated, will be removed in 2.0 IIRC

defaultThemePath() = /images/themes/default/
activeThemePath() = /images/themes/" + settings.value( "/Themes" , "default" )

HIG: 9) Use consistent iconography. If you need an icon or icon elements, please
contact Robert Szczepanek on the mailing list for assistance.

For now, the images/themes/default theme is still default so a new
icon must be added first to images/themes/default, right? But, the
icons made by Robert can only go to gis theme. If I want to add a new
icon, I have to create one in default style and ask Robert for another
one in gis style? And classic?

General question, regardless which theme will become default, what
rules are for other themes? Each theme must or may contain all icons
from default theme? IOW, if developer wants to add a new icon, he must
add one to each theme or to default theme only? I believe that all
themes should be complete, otherwise alternative themes become almost
useless for normal users.

What does mean "Should we update QGIS so that the default themes is
the 'new' GIS theme, making the 'old' theme a secondary option?" in
the poll?
1) Change settings.value( "/Themes" , "default" ) to settings.value(
"/Themes" , "gis" )
    and defaultThemePath() to /images/themes/gis
2) mv images/themes/default images/themes/old
    mv images/themes/gis images/themes/default
Or something else?

Radim

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Please take a moment to tell us what you think: Should the 'GIS' icon
> theme be default in QGIS 2.0 (the next release of QGIS). Please visit
> our poll here to cast your vote:
>
>  http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4ffb5dfae4b08ad9dfac3f70
>
> In case you are not familiar with the fact that QGIS has icon themes,
> you can switch between them by going to:
>
> Settings Menu -> Options -> General Tab -> Application section -> Icon
> theme pick list
>
> We look forward to your feedback!
>
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>
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