[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] New Icons - difficult to "read"

[Robert Szczepanek]

Hi Jonathan,

You are right. Problem with new icons is that we have started with some 
idea (add raster, vector, PostgreSQL layer) and end up with several 
icons of the same type. First three icons are different, however have 
too many elements. Next are worse, and Oracle and others wait for more 
general problem solution.

What are the options from my point of view (just layer toolbar)?

1. We could remove green plus leaving the others (yellow star and red 
minus). This will give some more space to increase symbol size.

2. Remove 'layer' symbol, but in this case 'create vector layer' will be 
identical to 'create vector' in edit toolbar. But considering toolbar 
context is could be OK.
Definitely we should remove 'layer' from WMS, WFS and similar.

3. Due to variety of database formats replace them with clones of 
database logo.

All changes are possible, but after general agreement. We can do it now 
or after QGIS 2.0 release.

regards,
Robert

On 24.05.2013 10:59, Jonathan Moules wrote:
> +1
>
> i.e. The difference between the "Add PostGIS layers" and "Add SpatiaLite
> layers" is that one has a regular cylinder and the other has a
> fat-waisted hour-glass cylinder - about 20-30 pixels are different in an
> icon that's got 1024 pixels! I have to look at them in detail to see the
> differences. And there's still MSSQL and Oracle icons to be created in
> the new schema which using this system will only confuse things more.
>
>
> Don't get me wrong, I like the style of the new icons, but they're
> really hard to visually differentiate.
>
>
> I did a quick google and came across this:
> http://turbomilk.com/blog/cookbook/icon_design/10_mistakes_in_icon_design/
>
> The QGIS icons do all of the top three things.
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 24 May 2013 09:27, skampus <stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it
> <mailto:stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it>> wrote:
>
>     that could be a useful option.
>     sincerely, from my point of view, many icons are
>     unreadable/undistinguishable so i click them correctly only because
>     now i
>     remberer relative position
>
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