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

Fri May 24 05:23:47 PDT 2013

Agree as well with Werner and Anita.
It is just matter of a short adaptation period.

Ciao

On 05/24/2013 01:34 PM, Anita Graser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> -1. I agree with Werner. Having used the "gis" icon set for many months,
> I have problems using the old ones. That's just how the human mind works.
> Let's improve the "gis" icons where it makes sense but let us focus or
> work on one set.
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com
> <mailto:werner.macho at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi!
>
>     -1 for keeping the old Icons..
>
>     I'd rather vote to probably leave them for 2.0 but get rid of them
>     afterwards.. It does not make any sense to have different sets of
>     icons ..
>     And as GRASS is using the same icon set in their GUI it does indeed
>     make sense to use it probably in every open source GIS ..
>
>     I know that the first time might be hard but that"s just the usual
>     human behaviour of refusing new things.
>     But for e.g. I am working with the new icon set since a very long
>     time (to use GRASS and QGIS in parallel) and I can find everything
>     at once but rather have some kind of problems when I switch to the
>     old ones..
>
>     So I know that I could adapt myself to the old iconset within a few
>     days .. It"s just human that every "more work" you have to do gets
>     refused at first regardless of the advatnages it might bring later
>
>     So maybe for a period of migration I"d leave the old icons inside
>     but definitely not for 2.1 or later ..
>
>     OF course that all is just my personal experience and opinion
>
>     kind regards
>     Werner
>
>
>
>
>     On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Duarte Carreira <DCarreira at edia.pt
>     <mailto:DCarreira at edia.pt>> wrote:
>
>         I would like to ask the “powers that be” to keep the old and
>         trusted icons. They never failed me and the gui is quite
>         uplifting. The new set may be technically better but is not as
>         friendly to users.
>
>         Please keep both.
>
>         Duarte
>
>         *De:*Jonathan Moules [mailto:jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk
>         <mailto:jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk>]
>         *Enviada:* sexta-feira, 24 de Maio de 2013 09:59
>         *Para:* skampus
>         *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>         <mailto:qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org>;
>         qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>         <mailto:qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
>         *Assunto:* Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] New Icons -
>         difficult to "read"
>
>         +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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