[Qgis-developer] many SVG symbols disappeared

[Werner Macho]

I am completely on Tims side..
Cleaning up the house for 2.0 is very important - probably we would not get
any chance that soon anymore..

So I would also suggest that those "old" symbols can be provided as a
download somewhere for people that would really like to use "old" symbols
(or have to) ..
It's just the question where to communicate it to that persons..

kind regards
Werner



On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> 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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