[Qgis-user] Some extra North Arrows :-)

[Noli Sicad]

Hi Tim,

I think you have to resurrect the uncompiled icons displaying
capability of Qgis. I put a ticket on it but nothing has been done
yet.

I like to use my nkids icon set and I will update it later on.

Thanks.

Noli

On 7/24/10, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Nikos
>
> The arrows have been added in revision 13955. Many thanks for your
> contribution. On this topic if there are others out there in QGIS-User
> land that are artistic and interested in contributing graphics, icons
> etc. such additions are always welcome!
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:54 AM, Nikos Alexandris
> <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
>> On Friday 23 of July 2010 23:28:51 Tim Sutton wrote:
>>> Hi Nikos
>>>
>>> Thanks for the north arrows. I will add them no problem - please just
>>> confirm that these are your intellectual property and that you are
>>> happy for them to be made available under the GPL license.
>>
>> * Arrows and circles created from scratch (since for some reason I did not
>> like already QGIS-existing arrows which I initially tried to use as a
>> reference).
>>
>> * Colors empirically chosen. Although I do have/read very nice books about
>> colors (e.g. [1]) and... well, observe Nature :-)
>>
>> * All done using Inkscape.
>>
>> + and I am Very happy to see them in QGIS.
>>
>> - There might be a problem if empirically using combinations of colors is
>> patented (see also [2]) in some way and I have to cite some source or pay
>> for
>> it :-p
>>
>> Thank you very much Tim, Nikos
>>
>> ---
>> [1] Welsch, Norbert and Liebmann, Claus Chr., Farben. Natur, Technik,
>> Kunst,
>> 2. Auflage - Sonderausgabe, Elsevier, Spektrum, Akademischer Verlag, 2006.
>>
>> [2] I like so much Hawking's words so I am repeat them whenever I can:
>> --%<---
>> "We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent
>> the
>> universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence."
>>
>> Hawking, Stephen. 2008. "Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the
>> universe." On-line video at TED Talks Web site.
>> http://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_hawking_asks_big_questions_about_the_universe.html
>> (accessed on June 7, 2010).
>> --%<---
>>
>
>
>
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