[Qgis-developer] incoherent and unproffesional icons (regression)

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia sobota, 6 lipca 2013 o 19:55:37 Larry Shaffer napisał(a):
> I have just updated some of Denis's property icons to help them match the
> characteristics of existing icons [0]. There were issues with the new icons
> having no buffered whitespace and the line width was a bit heavy [1].

Surely it's a step in right direction, thanks. However the icons still ignore 
the palette (especially the saturation) and the style (e.g. the degree of 
shape complexity) of icons already existing on the list. Just compare the 
hammer&screwdriver to the paintbrush.

> However, I do not see how you can label Denis's excellent initiative to
> rework these icons as 'incoherent and unprofessional' or a regression. ?? I
> fail to see how that type of criticism is constructive towards the goal of
> arriving at better icons, especially since none of the new icons is in any
> way of lesser quality, artistically or intrinsically, than the ones they
> have replaced.

I appreciate Denis' daily work so much that I don't mince words when one 
particular commit goes IMHO in completely wrong direction. Denis, I kindly 
appologize if you felt offended or depreciated. I used to talk straight if I 
completely can't agree with a particular action and I'm thankful if people do 
the same to me.

I have nothing against the new icons themselves. I don't prefer the old ones. 
Even if I did, I'm not going to force my personal taste. But I'm going to 
defend a basic harmony in the GUI. The new icons just completely don't fit to 
the others. I'm not skilled in design, so usually I sit still and let more 
competent people work. But this is one of the rare moments, when I feel 
constrained to point out that maybe asking the original author about svg 
sources may be better solution than introducing such a mixture of styles. 

> I also fail to see how these icons being SVG has anything to do with issue.
> IMO all icons in the program should be switched over to SVG. There are no
> issues that I can see with doing so.

Of course all icons should be switched, but imho not at the cost of making 
them incoherent. Btw. big thanks for your tonight's replacements the old 
inconsistent icons :)

Borys