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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I also think there is no point in maintaining two iconsets - lets
rather use the good feedback in this thread to make Roberts icon set
awesome.

@Robert - what about using a background colour scheme whereby e.g. all
add layer icons get the same background colour and then you can remove
e.g. the + and layer picture elements as they are visually grouped.
Just a thought anyway....

Regards

Tim

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Robert Szczepanek
<robert at szczepanek.pl> wrote:
> Layer toolbar could look like this [1], except OWS icons.
> Oracle Spatial logo was not found, so I took 'O' from Oracle, but it looks
> ugly in this context. Combination of this 'O' with database symbol doesn't
> look nice either. Some proposals ...?
>
> We could leave old database symbol with different colours, but MSSQL,
> SpatiaLite and Oracle icons are mainly red so this will be hard.
> Additionally we must remember about color-blind persons.
>
> regards,
> Robert
>
> [1] http://robert.szczepanek.pl/tmp/layer-toolbar.png
>
>
> On 24.05.2013 13:51, Robert Szczepanek wrote:
>>
>> 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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