Hi I also think there is no point in maintaining two iconsets - lets rather use the good feedback in this thread to make Roberts icon set awesome.
@Robert - what about using a background colour scheme whereby e.g. all add layer icons get the same background colour and then you can remove e.g. the + and layer picture elements as they are visually grouped. Just a thought anyway.... Regards Tim On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Robert Szczepanek <[email protected]> wrote: > Layer toolbar could look like this [1], except OWS icons. > Oracle Spatial logo was not found, so I took 'O' from Oracle, but it looks > ugly in this context. Combination of this 'O' with database symbol doesn't > look nice either. Some proposals ...? > > We could leave old database symbol with different colours, but MSSQL, > SpatiaLite and Oracle icons are mainly red so this will be hard. > Additionally we must remember about color-blind persons. > > regards, > Robert > > [1] http://robert.szczepanek.pl/tmp/layer-toolbar.png > > > On 24.05.2013 13:51, Robert Szczepanek wrote: >> >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> You are right. Problem with new icons is that we have started with some >> idea (add raster, vector, PostgreSQL layer) and end up with several >> icons of the same type. First three icons are different, however have >> too many elements. Next are worse, and Oracle and others wait for more >> general problem solution. >> >> What are the options from my point of view (just layer toolbar)? >> >> 1. We could remove green plus leaving the others (yellow star and red >> minus). This will give some more space to increase symbol size. >> >> 2. Remove 'layer' symbol, but in this case 'create vector layer' will be >> identical to 'create vector' in edit toolbar. But considering toolbar >> context is could be OK. >> Definitely we should remove 'layer' from WMS, WFS and similar. >> >> 3. Due to variety of database formats replace them with clones of >> database logo. >> >> All changes are possible, but after general agreement. We can do it now >> or after QGIS 2.0 release. >> >> regards, >> Robert >> >> On 24.05.2013 10:59, Jonathan Moules wrote: >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> i.e. The difference between the "Add PostGIS layers" and "Add SpatiaLite >>> layers" is that one has a regular cylinder and the other has a >>> fat-waisted hour-glass cylinder - about 20-30 pixels are different in an >>> icon that's got 1024 pixels! I have to look at them in detail to see the >>> differences. And there's still MSSQL and Oracle icons to be created in >>> the new schema which using this system will only confuse things more. >>> >>> >>> Don't get me wrong, I like the style of the new icons, but they're >>> really hard to visually differentiate. >>> >>> >>> I did a quick google and came across this: >>> >>> http://turbomilk.com/blog/cookbook/icon_design/10_mistakes_in_icon_design/ >>> >>> >>> The QGIS icons do all of the top three things. >>> >>> Jonathan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 24 May 2013 09:27, skampus <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> that could be a useful option. >>> sincerely, from my point of view, many icons are >>> unreadable/undistinguishable so i click them correctly only because >>> now i >>> remberer relative position >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> View this message in context: >>> >>> >>> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Re-Qgis-user-New-Icons-difficult-to-read-tp5055427p5055467.html >>> >>> Sent from the Quantum GIS - Developer mailing list archive at >>> Nabble.com. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qgis-developer mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >>> >>> >>> >>> This transmission is intended for the named addressee(s) only and may >>> contain sensitive or protectively marked material up to RESTRICTED and >>> should be handled accordingly. 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