[Qgis-user] Font Awesome symbols in QGIS

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 at 07:57, Charles Dixon-Paver <charles at kartoza.com> wrote:
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> I hacked together a band-aid solution. Probably not production ready but I would advocate for this system of having a small subset of these icons included in QGIS core by default going forward (If any. It may be better to just start a similar svg-library specifically for cartography, but using what's available is a start I guess.).
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> Pretty much any application specific purposes are well catered for by the resource sharing plugin IMO.
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> Cherry picked list of Font-Awesome icons for general map purposes:
> https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4qgis
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> Entire Font Awesome Free repo to use with the QGIS Resource Sharing Plugin:
> https://github.com/zacharlie/fa4gis

Looking great! Don't forget to add the

   fill-opacity="param(fill-opacity)"

and

  stroke-opacity="param(outline-opacity)"

parameters too, so that the opacity can be controlled from the QGIS side...

Nyall


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> Happy to hand over custodianship of these to anyone who thinks they're up to it .
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> If people find these useful I could probably do similar for similar libraries like feather, material or unicons.
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> Regards
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> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 13:28, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
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>> > but these use cases seem pretty fringe to me (no for general use).
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>> Yes, and this then raises the question: how fringe is too fringe? An ecologist is going to want a different set of symbols to a transport planner to a meteorologist to a defence planner to a hydrologist to a school teacher to a archaeologist to a geologist to a....
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>> Should default QGIS only be suitable for creating generic city-level maps? With few exceptions that seems to be all the current SBG symbols are aimed at (that and depicting multi-cultural religious stuff... :-? ). Sure, that's a good base, but how many people actually do just that?
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>> The thing with complex tools like QIGS is that outside of the core, everyone uses different features. I'd point out that QGIS already has numerous tools that are to some degree domain specific (explicitly or implicitly): Hydrology, Network Analysis, Geostatistics, etc. Assuming sensible tooling around discovering like the Processing Toolbox now has, I think more icons would make things better for everyone. I'm definitely not suggesting adding all icons, but certainly a healthy chunk of new ones to cover a larger set of use-cases than the current set do.
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>> On 2020-07-28 11:24, Charles Dixon-Paver wrote:
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>> No to waylay to furore, but these use cases seem pretty fringe to me (no for general use) and are the type of thing that is catered for by the resource sharing plugin.
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>> If the goal is to improve usability, including all of the fa icons seems counter intuitive to me.
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>> Regards
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>> On Tue, 28 Jul 2020 at 11:58, Jonathan Moules <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi Nyall,
>>>
>>> The problem is it's near impossible to know what people will use for symbology.
>>>
>>> > battery indicators
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>>> Charging stations; indicators of expected charge during a Battery operated vehicle event; etc [although probably only need the empty one; the full rest can be created with symbology and a rectangle]
>>>
>>> > volume
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>>> Mapping a festival; tracking noise complaints; etc
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>>> > most of the "hand" ones
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>>> I'd probably keep about half of them. The rotation variants are not needed of course, but quite a few hands could be used: hand-wash (I hear there's something going around...), hand-pointer, praying-hands, handshake, hand-rock, hand-holding (the variants can be created by symbology), hands, hand-sparkles. I can think of uses for all of these.
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>>> It's obviously subjective but I'd lean on the side of including ones that look like they could be useful, especially given the suggestions around categorisation and search in my other thread which would improve discoverability. Remember people make maps of all manner of crazy things, and often subvert one symbol to mean another thing (with some tweaking) [or maybe that's just me ;-) ].
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2020-07-28 01:43, Nyall Dawson wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:08, Jonathan Moules
>>> <jonathan-lists at lightpear.com> wrote:
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>>> I'd be happy to do that, though I'd note that what one person thinks is
>>> useless, would be useful to another person. Sure I'm struggling to
>>> conceive of a use for "alignment" or "bezier-curve", but a quick look
>>> suggests probably over 50% would be potentially useful. Over 80% if you
>>> remain open minded about how people use these things.
>>>
>>> That's the kind of ones I was referring to. Also stuff like volume
>>> up/down, battery indicators, the calender +/-/check icons, most of the
>>> "hand" ones, a bunch of the "user" ones. I can't see those EVER being
>>> used in a map! By the time you remove them and all the brand ones then
>>> you're probably down to about 20% of the original set.
>>>
>>> Nyall
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> I second Regis plan: if someone forks (or even clones) the github repo, and creates a simple script to morph it a little to resemble the structure you need for the 'QGIS Resource Sharing' Plugin to work (see [0] as simple example and [1] for the nice documentation of it), the icons are one click away for users (plus another one to install the plugin).
>>>
>>> And the more proper Resource set's we are having, the better our style/icon resources will get.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Richard Duivenvoorde
>>>
>>> [0] https://github.com/rduivenvoorde/qgis-styles/
>>> [1] https://qgis-contribution.github.io/QGIS-ResourceSharing/
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