[Qgis-developer] [Qgis-user] Iconset from Google

[Martin Dobias]

Hi Paolo

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 8:40 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> Il 20/10/2014 15:29, Andreas Neumann ha scritto:
>
>> I'd be against adding a lot of SVGs to the standard installation. Too many files slow
>> down QGIS. People should selectively install only the icons they really need.
>>
>> Didn't we have a project of a common icon repository where users could
>> contribute/checkout tagged icons, specific to certain needs (e.g. geology icons,
>> landmarks, geomorphology icons, etc.)? What happened to this project? This would make
>> much more sense rather than delivering hundreds/thousands of icons by default where
>> users only need 5-10 % of the shipped icons.
>
> Agreed fully. Unfortunately the project is still unfinished. IMHO (I know, I'm
> repeating myself) it would be important to have it in production.
> As a side not, I think we should also do something to speed up the loading of many
> symbols: as QGIS is being picked up for serious work, it is rather normal for users
> to build up huge collections of symbols.

I remember that Arun's summer of code project (2012 I think) was meant
to improve the situation. Are there still problems with slow loading
of symbols? Or are we talking just about loading of SVGs? (that should
have been improved too)

Cheers
Martin