[QGIS-Developer] SVG icons in QGIS

[Nyall Dawson]

On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 10:39, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:57, Jonathan Moules
> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi List,
> >
> > The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it
> > really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons
> > are categorised by the directory they're in, so if you want an icon to
> > appear in two categories, you put the icon in there twice... and so
> > that's just what has happened! I suspect the current set has simply
> > accreted over time.
>
> For reference: I'm totally in agreement that we need to improve the
> DEFAULT set of svg files, and that the resource sharing plugin isn't
> the best solution here. It's a great solution for some use cases, but
> we need to improve the out-of-the-box experience in this regard and
> that means extending the default set.
>
> > My thoughts:
> > * Move the svg's into a single directory. (Though would break any
> > current projects symbology using them I guess?)
>
> Yes -- we CAN'T do this. What we've got now has to stay, in its
> current structure, and without renaming.
>
> > * Use a metadata file to categorise them, so you get a list of
> > categories as now and a single symbol can be in multiple categories.
>
> We could potentially add tags to the svg files themselves to add this
> information.
>
> > * Add a search feature so the user can quickly find "museum" without
> > having to guess where it has been categorised.
>
> Big +1 to this. Especially if we also add search by tag support!
>
> > * Clean up the current symbols by removing duplicates.
>
> Again, we can't do this without risking breaking people's existing
> projects (which is off-limits!)
>
> > * Add the font-awesome symbols (per my thread on the User List) to fill
> > in the gaps and flesh out the collection. As a bonus, it comes with
> > metadata for categories and search terms (YAML files).
> >
> > * bonus - metadata is internationalised so "museo" (IT), "muzeu" (RO),
> > etc would also work for finding that museum.
> >
> > Thoughts?

Oh, also they'd need to be "parameterised", so that users can set the
fill/stroke color, opacity and stroke width from within QGIS.



>
> Sounds good to me! To clarify -- are you volunteering to lead this effort?
>
> Nyall
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jonathan
> >
> >
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