On Aug 12, 2008, at 9:00 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:50:29 +0200
From: Maciej Sieczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] default icon set in wxGUI
To: Martin Landa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: GRASS developers list <[email protected]>
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Martin Landa pisze:
Hi,
2008/8/12 Maciej Sieczka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
After installing the current develbranch6 SVN from scratch, wxGUI
defaulted to "grass" icon set instead of "silk". The latter is much
slicker, looks more proffessional, occupies less space. Could wxGUI
default to "silk"?
a few days ago Michael changed default icon set to the original
GRASS.
I am not sure which icon set should be default, anyway I am using
silk... Maybe we could vote?
+1 for silk ;-)
Needless to say me the same: +1 for silk.
The GRASS icon set would require couple of adjustments in the GUI
layout
as it's icons are bigger (e.g. in digitizer half of the tools are not
visible unless you manually extend window width).
The GRASS icon set is specifically designed for GRASS functions. Some
of the silk icons clearly map on to GRASS functions, but others are
pretty enigmatic because they are not designed for GIS. Examples
include "add overlay" to the display and "add grid overlay or text
labels" in the layer manager. I emailed the silk developer some time
back about possibly doing a few GRASS-specific icons for us, but he
never wrote me back. The icons for rgb and his layers are ones that I
designed and added to the silk set.
I'm reluctant to make the generic silk set the default when there are
mismatches between icon and function. This makes GRASS more difficult
to learn for the uninitiated.
Also, while the GRASS icons may seem large to some, the silk set seems
very small to me, and sometimes difficult to discern what is being
represented.
There is a new GRASS custom iconset in development and I hope that it
can be rolled out soon.
-1 for silk as the default (though I'm all in favor of providing it).
If you choose it in the preferences, it will be your default from then
on, even if you install another version of GRASS.
Michael
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