[Qgis-developer] QGIS3 theme?

[Nyall Dawson]

On 28 February 2017 at 11:47, Mathieu Pellerin <nirvn.asia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Tim,
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> 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.

Actually that's a good point... if the icon theme is monochrome + 1
configurable accent, it could be possible to have a "color grouped"
option (enabled by a plugin... because UI options are the enemy)

Nyall

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> On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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
>> >
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>> Oh - I'm not a huge fan of libreoffice's either!
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>> Both Mathieu and I very much like the direction of this icon style:
>> https://www.creativefreedom.co.uk/icon-design-portfolio/application-icons/
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>> 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).
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>> > 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:
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>> > 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.
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>> 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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