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

[Denis Rouzaud]

Hi Borys, Larry Nathan and all,

I did felt a bit offended, but I am sure it was not your intention, it 
is for sure a question of culture. French speakers tend to wrap up with 
nice words ;)

Anyway, I get your point for these icons. If wanted, I can simplify the 
hammer or something else.

Now, here is my plan.
First, I will finalize the icons for project/layer toolbars according to 
Larry's recommendations. Thanks a lot to Larry and Nathan for your 
support and comments by the way.
Second, I will try to get a nice hand for pan.
Then, I will try to harmonize a bit the settings icons by bringing a new 
set.

Also, pull requests are open, so anything constructive should be written 
into them.

Cheers,

Denis


On 07/07/2013 03:57 PM, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> 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