I agree custom icons would be more versatile and fill a need, but I also think a good set of default icons can ease the lives of a lot of devs. It's just cumbersome to have to worry about icons, especially if you want to match the existing ones' style somewhat.
Icons like weld/ connect, up- and download, reset, warning and driven (great catch on that one btw!) are incredibly generic. Weld/ connect could be useful for anything from springs and joints to Armature tools; upload could likely be repurposed for things like "export". I would personally give "custom icons" higher priority, but I definitely agree more default icons would be nice. +1 from me. > Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 22:25:03 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] General purpose icons for Blender Addons? > > Good Idea, but better would be custom icons. As you said, every addon > has it's own need. Using one icon for different purpose is really > disturbing for the user. I can't believe we have volumetrics and SSS and > can't load an external png file for custom icons in 2015. > > Le 08/05/2015 17:00, Ines Almeida a écrit : > > I believe this is totally worth discussion too :) > > > > My comments: > > - WARN (in addition to INFO and ERROR) - seems good, though I would > > associate the yellow triangle we already have with 'WARN' and something > > more red with 'ERROR' > > - RESET (Reset to defaults) - is FILE_REFRESH not good for this? > > - DOCUMENT (manual/wiki/online doc...) - what about URL ? there are also > > multiple icons for file types (eg text) > > - DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD seem important to me as well > > - all the others I don't have a strong opinion pro or against > > > > --- > > Inês Almeida / brita_ > > _______________________________________________ > > Bf-committers mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
