A question has come up about the future home of icons in GRASS 7.
Long ago, there were few icons and they lived in $GISBASE/bwidget and $GISBASE/etc/tcltkgrass.
As we came to have a full-fledged GUI, we had a great icon move several years ago that put them into $GISBASE/etc/gui/icons
Somewhere along the way, with an improvement in GRASS docs and the addition of graphic elements to doc pages, a set of icons is now recreated in $GISBASE/docs/html/icons
With wxPython, we have been experimenting with alternative icon sets (a 'silk' set in addition to the 'classic' GRASS set), and a new set is in development. At first, the silk icons were put into $GISBASE/ icons/silk. But this year, these were moved to $GISBASE/docs/html/ icons/silk.
Currently, in trunk, the legacy TclTk interface and the wxPython interface in 'classic' mode, uses GRASS icons in $GISBASE/etc/gui/ icons. When the silk icon set is selected in the new wxGUI, it uses the icons in $GISBASE/docs/html/icons/silk.
In the docs called from wxGUI, you can see both the classic and silk icons, drawn from $GISBASE/docs/html/icons and $GISBASE/docs/html/ icons/silk.
Martin and I agree that all the icons should be put into one place. The question is where. The original place identified for GUI icon sets was $GISBASE/etc/gui/icons. However, Martin points out that there is a real convenience factor for doc page creation to have them in $GISBASE/ docs/html/icons. In either place, we should probably have a structure like ../icons/grass; ../icons/silk; ../icons/newgrass; etc.
I have no problem with the $GISBASE/docs/html/icons location but wanted to see if there are any other considerations we should keep in mind as to where the GRASS 7 icon archive should live.
Michael ______________________________ C. Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-2402 USA voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
