[Qgis-developer] Layers and Browser dock widget icons

[Matthias Kuhn]

Having more SVG icons helps a lot to make the interface look good
(despite the fact that some graphics designer may object that there's no
hinting)

For reference, this code is used in QField to calculate button sizes and
may as well be used to calculate the default icon size device independently:
https://github.com/opengisch/QField/blob/master/src/qgismobileapp.cpp#L110-L113

Cheers

On 05/29/2015 01:08 PM, Mathieu Pellerin wrote:
> I'd say the related changes committed within the last 72 hours helped
> a lot in that regard. For one, the icon refresh moved away from 16 x
> 16 png icons to SVG graphics. In addition, the icon size for dock tool
> buttons are now taking into account the user preferred icon size.
>
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Alessandro Pasotti
> <apasotti at gmail.com <mailto:apasotti at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Please consider HiDPI screens when planning icon sizes, at least
>     they should be configurable, there is still a settings option for
>     icon sizes.
>
>     At the HF we discussed about the different options, one is to add
>     options like
>
>     very small
>     small
>     normal
>     big
>     huge
>
>     instead of the px size, this should scale nicely converting sizes
>     to actual pixels according to DPI.
>
>
>
>
>     2015-05-29 2:34 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com
>     <mailto:nirvn.asia at gmail.com>>:
>
>         Larry,
>
>         As Nyall mentioned, icon size of the dock tool button will go
>         back to 16 x 16 by default. That'll make things look the same
>         as before.
>
>         That said, the border on the buttons (no present on other
>         OSes) aren't very nice. It might be worth adding a style
>         specifically for os x to remove those.
>
>         On 29 May 2015 05:37, "Nyall Dawson" <nyall.dawson at gmail.com
>         <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>             On 29 May 2015 5:55 am, "Larry Shaffer"
>             <larrys at dakotacarto.com <mailto:larrys at dakotacarto.com>>
>             wrote:
>             >
>             > Hi,
>             >
>             > The new icons for the Layers and Browser docks look
>             good, but now the sizing and spacing looks awkward when
>             compared to the main toolbars (see 0, 1 screen snaps),
>             especially on Mac. What's the likelihood that we can
>             switch those over from QToolButtons to a actions on a
>             QToolBar instead for the upcoming release? These docks
>             would then look similar to the Console's QToolBar (see
>             either screen snap).
>
>             There's some discussion on the pull request regarding
>             this, see:
>
>             https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/2071#issuecomment-106283486
>
>             The plan is to drop the icon/button sizes down a level
>             (should then match the previous appearance).
>
>             Nyall
>
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