[Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] New Icons - difficult to "read"

[Werner Macho]

Hi!

-1 for keeping the old Icons..

I'd rather vote to probably leave them for 2.0 but get rid of them
afterwards.. It does not make any sense to have different sets of icons ..
And as GRASS is using the same icon set in their GUI it does indeed make
sense to use it probably in every open source GIS ..

I know that the first time might be hard but that"s just the usual human
behaviour of refusing new things.
But for e.g. I am working with the new icon set since a very long time (to
use GRASS and QGIS in parallel) and I can find everything at once but
rather have some kind of problems when I switch to the old ones..

So I know that I could adapt myself to the old iconset within a few days ..
It"s just human that every "more work" you have to do gets refused at first
regardless of the advatnages it might bring later

So maybe for a period of migration I"d leave the old icons inside but
definitely not for 2.1 or later ..

OF course that all is just my personal experience and opinion

kind regards
Werner




On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Duarte Carreira <DCarreira at edia.pt> wrote:

>  I would like to ask the “powers that be” to keep the old and trusted
> icons. They never failed me and the gui is quite uplifting. The new set may
> be technically better but is not as friendly to users.****
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> Please keep both.****
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> Duarte****
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> *De:* Jonathan Moules [mailto:jonathanmoules at warwickshire.gov.uk]
> *Enviada:* sexta-feira, 24 de Maio de 2013 09:59
> *Para:* skampus
> *Cc:* qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
> *Assunto:* Re: [Qgis-user] [Qgis-developer] New Icons - difficult to
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> +1****
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> i.e. The difference between the "Add PostGIS layers" and "Add SpatiaLite
> layers" is that one has a regular cylinder and the other has a fat-waisted
> hour-glass cylinder - about 20-30 pixels are different in an icon that's
> got 1024 pixels! I have to look at them in detail to see the differences.
> And there's still MSSQL and Oracle icons to be created in the new schema
> which using this system will only confuse things more.****
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> Don't get me wrong, I like the style of the new icons, but they're really
> hard to visually differentiate.****
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> I did a quick google and came across this:****
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> http://turbomilk.com/blog/cookbook/icon_design/10_mistakes_in_icon_design/
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> The QGIS icons do all of the top three things.****
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> Jonathan****
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> On 24 May 2013 09:27, skampus <stefano.campus at regione.piemonte.it> wrote:*
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> that could be a useful option.
> sincerely, from my point of view, many icons are
> unreadable/undistinguishable so i click them correctly only because now i
> remberer relative position
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