On 10/13/2010 08:42 AM, Vincent Picavet wrote: > Hi, > Some QGis users recently pointed me out the fact that the icon set for > rendering in QGis was not that extensive nor consistent. > I've recently discovered the following dataset, which is aimed at covering > OpenStreetMap's needs with Mapnik, but would be great to have in QGIS as > well : > > http://www.sjjb.co.uk/mapicons/introduction > > On a more general viewpoint, what users stated was that it would be really > great to have some kind of a centralized icon and style repository, with > automatic search and retrieval from inside QGis, a bit like what KDE does > with KDE Hot New Stuff ( http://newstuff.kde.org/repos.php ). > Are there any current plans on implementing this kind of feature ? > > Vincent
There is a movement within the OSGeo community to centralize all the freely available icons. It's been a little slow to get started but see the Graphics mailing list http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/graphics These things tend to not take a ton of space so it's fairly likely that they would just be included in QGIS, no need to retrieve them from the web. That said I agree that some way to catalog (keyword) and search for icons could be quite useful, the big problem is where to stick that metadata within the svg files. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
