[Qgis-psc] How do we handle icon discussions?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 23.02.2014, 19:22 Uhr, schrieb Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com>:
>
>  Thanks Anita and Otto. My concern in the original thread was mainly
>> relating to trivial updates to icons invalidating training materials and
>> other resources out there. We would like to invest more time and effort
>> into training materials for QGIS but its not so nice if as soon as you
>> write them a new version of QGIS comes out with different icons making all
>> the screenshots invalid. Same goes for people writing books etc. about
>> QGIS. My thinking was that we should adopt some kind of policy whereby we
>> accept new icons for new tools in minor releases but collect general icon
>> tweaks and improvements together for  e.g. major releases. That way we we
>> limit the amount of brain retraining that has to happen between each minor
>> version for users, and reduce the amount of churn that documentation
>> related to QGIS needs to undergo with each release.
>>
>
> Thanks for your input Tim! I'm with you on this issue. Does anyone in PSC
> care to discuss further? (Based on the limited feedback so far, I assume
> it's not of top importance.) Otherwise, I would go ahead and write up a
> "policy" (as Tim roughly described above). Most likely, I would write it up
> in the dev meeting week so we can talk about it there if anyone is
> interested.


Yes agreed this is probably not a high priority issue. +1 for you to
formulate a working practice document.

Regards

Tim


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> Best wishes,
> Anita
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