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

[Robert Szczepanek]

Hi Larry and team,

On 23.01.2013 01:10, Larry Shaffer wrote:
(...)
> 1) Create a new graphics repository at github.com <http://github.com>,
> e.g. named 'qgis-graphics'.
>
> It is important that a single repository exist where
> designers/developers can find and work on SVG originals/components for
(...)

 From technical point of view, will we improve somehow accessibility for 
designers moving from OSGeo Graphics to GITHub?
OSGeo Graphics is updated based on different requests (QGIS, GRASS and 
others). I would prefer to treat 'any' OSGeo repository (at OSGeo or 
github) as main point for graphics dissemination.
My point is - lets find the simplest environment for designers, but 
common for OSGeo projects. If we want seperate QGIS icons repo (on 
github), it can be synchronized/copied from central OSGeo. Or made as 
sub-folder/sub-project.

> 2) Condense current icons/pixmaps used in QGIS from all themes into just
> the default theme, with preference to vote-preferred GIS theme. Move the
> discarded icons and themes to the graphics repo, for later reference.

+1

> 3) Copy any relevant SVG/pixmap sources from OSGeo repo [0] and Robert
> Szczepanek's source icon work (that may not be in current source code
> repo) [2] to new qgis-graphics repository.

I moved all my work to OSGeo Graphics to avoid duplication. Duplicating 
it in qgis-graphics will make work harder. Unless it will be some 
synchro mechanism, which I'm not familiar with.

> 4) Try to convert ALL new default theme icons to SVG, which may mean
> recreating many as vector art since the embedded-raster-in-SVG method
> doesn't seem to work well now (causes ugly upscaling) [3]. It should be
> possible to fix that issue in code, allowing for use of
> pixmaps-inside-SVG, until they are converted to vector-based SVGs.

This is the point I would prefer to focus on, not administering two repos.

> * Maybe look into some funding for someone, like Robert, to work on 1)
> thru 4).

For me, at the moment, it is more matter of time (lack of), not money.
And anyone is welcome to supply OSGeo repo.
For coders, please just open appropriate tickets at OSGeo Graphics as 
not always I can follow fast QGIS progress.
By the way - great work Larry on QGIS improvement.

regards,
Robert

> [0] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/graphics
> [1] https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/398/files
> [2] http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php
> [3]
> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/SVG-Icons-instead-of-PNGs-td4991647.html
> [4]
> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Cast-your-vote-Default-icon-theme-for-QGIS-2-0-td4987107.html
>
> See also: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Icons_20
>
> Regards,
>
> Larry Shaffer
> Dakota Cartography
> Black Hills, South Dakota