[Qgis-developer] QGIS3 theme?

[Mathieu Pellerin]

Tim,

There's an extra bonus to monochrome + highlight color icon set: it is
much, much easier for people and groups (such as Gandesh) to customize
icons to their needs. Ie, if a group wants to create an "accent colour"
icon set, it'll be much easier to do so using a monochrome set to begin
with.



On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 28 February 2017 at 06:29, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I would also like to see a nice cohesive theme designed. I have seen in
> the past that you referenced LibreOffice as an example we could follow.
> IMHO their theme is really bad - from both as aesthetic point of view and
> from a functional point of view:
> >
> > https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Discover/LO52-
> Screenshots/lo52-writer-02.png
> >
>
> Oh - I'm not a huge fan of libreoffice's either!
>
> Both Mathieu and I very much like the direction of this icon style:
> https://www.creativefreedom.co.uk/icon-design-portfolio/application-icons/
>
> There's a single highlight color used to disambiguate similar icons,
> plus a red color used to highlight dangerous actions. I'd say this is
> a good compromise - we still need to be able to easily differentiate
> between "add ring" and "add part", but this highlight color could be
> configurable to work with different themes (eg night mapping).
>
>
> > The icons are overladen with many small details and too many discordant
> colours. When I was in Singapore a year or two back, I met up with Ganesh
> Shanmugam, a local QGIS service provider there. Ganesh had built a
> customised version of QGIS for use in schools and showed it off to me. One
> thing I really like is the way they used the same accent colour per
> toolbar. For example all File icons would get e.g. a red accent, all layer
> green, and so on. It makes it really easy to:
> >
> > a) find a toolbar even when on a strange computer where things are
> arranged differently and
> > b) give someone instructions : "click on the third icon from the left in
> the red tinted toolbar"
> >
> > In Gandesh's implementation, they actually coloured the toolbar
> background, but I think it would also be nice if we rather used the accent
> colour (so two-tone instead of monochrome) in the icons. Ganesh maybe you
> could share a link to a screenie?
> >
> > Anyway just my 2c to the debate.
>
> Interesting idea! My immediate thoughts are that this could detract
> from the goal of "toning down" the interface, so it'd need to be done
> very subtly. But it's worth exploring!
>
> Nyall
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