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

[Anita Graser]

We used to have a hand icon:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/38241992@N06/4090679956/
Wonder if it still exists somewhere. But I admit, it wasn't too good :)

Best wishes,
Anita


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:45 PM, Antonio Locandro <
antoniolocandro at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Just to reinforce the point raised
>
> The pan icon currently in Master are four arrows which are more associated
> with moving a graphic or a nudge, I would think the most well known symbol
> for that would be the famous little hand to pan
>
> Cheers
>
>
> *Ing. Antonio Locandro*
> Tegucigalpa, Honduras
>
> ------------------------------
> From: jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk
> Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 15:55:17 +0100
> To: anitagraser at gmx.at
>
> CC: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] New Icons - difficult to "read"
>
> Hi Anita,
>
> I think we have to be fair and recognize that a GIS is a little more
> complex than a web browser and will always have more buttons. Many
> functions which have only one meaning in a simpler application can have
> different meanings in a GIS depending on context. To simply assume the
> context from the placement in a certain toolbar could raise other issues.
>
>
> Fair point, but that's why I also compared other GIS's where I could
> (ArcGIS, MapModeller (FME Data Inspector uses the refresh circle but
> doesn't have a back/forward feature) and noted that they hold the same
> convention.
> Also, that was only one single example, there are others.
> These days people *expect* certain icons for certain things. To use a
> different icon throws away the years of pre-training the user will have
> already have using other applications that stuck to the convention.
>
> I don't think I've ever seen a single application that had 10 icons that
> were mostly the same before in the same that the magnifying glass ones in
> QGIS 2.0 are.
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan
>
> On 28 May 2013 11:11, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Jonathan Moules <
> jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk> wrote:
>
> +1 for unified data adding button. From a use-perspective there's no good
> reason that raster adding should be separate from vectors for instance
> In depth example: take the Back, Next, and Refresh view icons. The new
> QGIS icons all have a magnifying glass behind them (I can barely make out
> the "refresh" circle). Why? In comparison, I have four web-browsers in
> front of me, all have these buttons and all of them are simple
> arrows/refresh circles. None of them have a picture of a web-page behind
> them.
> ArcGIS and MapModeller both use simple arrows/circles too. MapInfo doesn't
> seem to have this functionality.
> At this point these icons are standard conventions, but the QGIS 2.0
> iconography makes that part only 1/6th of the actual icon, instead giving
> prominence to a magnifying glass that's entirely unnecessary.
>
>
> While I agree to some degree (+1 for unified data adding button), I think
> we have to be fair and recognize that a GIS is a little more complex than a
> web browser and will always have more buttons. Many functions which have
> only one meaning in a simpler application can have different meanings in a
> GIS depending on context. To simply assume the context from the placement
> in a certain toolbar could raise other issues.
>
> Best wishes,
> Anita
>
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