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

Tue May 28 12:32:23 PDT 2013

Hi!

Well I think in different places in the world different icons would be
"usual" ..
It's just about what you are "used" to have ..

Beside the really hard fact that the icons are not too colourful I think
this discussion would last forever ..
With a lot of personal different meanings ..

To speak for my own person .. I am also not satisfied with ALL the icons I
see, but Robert is doing an amazing job and spend a lot of time in creating
this icons .. And I am glad that this iconset is under active development
..
So, as long as I cannot make it better (and provide it) I am just happy
with what is there ..
Thanks to the Creator and active Maintainer of the GIS Iconset .. May it be
used in every OpenSource GIS Software so that we can have a common face to
the outside

kind regards
Werner

On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> 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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