[Qgis-developer] many SVG symbols disappeared

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Olivier Dalang <olivier.dalang at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was asking that question on this thread :
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Ideas-on-the-SVG-symbols-library-td5040508.html#a5046486
>
> Maybe I didn't emphasize enough on the deletion of symbols...
>
> IMO, the most elegant solution is to keep only the good-looking symbols so
> we provide a simple and consistent library, and then to provide a link on
> the website to download the unmodified 1.8 symbol library in case one needs
> to keep full backwards compatibility (it's quite easy to install : you just
> have to replace the SVG folder in your installation folder).
>
> The whole pull request already breaks backwards compatibility with all other
> symbols, since by removing their background, the may become unreadable on
> most of the maps...
>
> So if the priority is the keep old projects looking the same rather than
> having a clean and consistent library, the best is not to change the svg
> library at all.
>
> (just as an illustration, do you really think it's pertinent to keep this in
> the library ? :
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/jj9e852r08w5ysp/north-arrow_10_with_map_layers.png
> )
>

Yeah that ain't pretty...

Personally I like Oliver's patch and I think we should clean up house
for 2.0. Keeping compatibility is useful but most of my project files
from 1.8 are already broken to some degree and I would prefer we do
all the big changes in 2.0 and then become more conservative in
subsequent 2.x releases.

Regards

Tim

>



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