Tim, There's an extra bonus to monochrome + highlight color icon set: it is much, much easier for people and groups (such as Gandesh) to customize icons to their needs. Ie, if a group wants to create an "accent colour" icon set, it'll be much easier to do so using a monochrome set to begin with.
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:52 AM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28 February 2017 at 06:29, Tim Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I would also like to see a nice cohesive theme designed. I have seen in > the past that you referenced LibreOffice as an example we could follow. > IMHO their theme is really bad - from both as aesthetic point of view and > from a functional point of view: > > > > https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/Discover/LO52- > Screenshots/lo52-writer-02.png > > > > Oh - I'm not a huge fan of libreoffice's either! > > Both Mathieu and I very much like the direction of this icon style: > https://www.creativefreedom.co.uk/icon-design-portfolio/application-icons/ > > There's a single highlight color used to disambiguate similar icons, > plus a red color used to highlight dangerous actions. I'd say this is > a good compromise - we still need to be able to easily differentiate > between "add ring" and "add part", but this highlight color could be > configurable to work with different themes (eg night mapping). > > > > The icons are overladen with many small details and too many discordant > colours. When I was in Singapore a year or two back, I met up with Ganesh > Shanmugam, a local QGIS service provider there. Ganesh had built a > customised version of QGIS for use in schools and showed it off to me. One > thing I really like is the way they used the same accent colour per > toolbar. For example all File icons would get e.g. a red accent, all layer > green, and so on. It makes it really easy to: > > > > a) find a toolbar even when on a strange computer where things are > arranged differently and > > b) give someone instructions : "click on the third icon from the left in > the red tinted toolbar" > > > > In Gandesh's implementation, they actually coloured the toolbar > background, but I think it would also be nice if we rather used the accent > colour (so two-tone instead of monochrome) in the icons. Ganesh maybe you > could share a link to a screenie? > > > > Anyway just my 2c to the debate. > > Interesting idea! My immediate thoughts are that this could detract > from the goal of "toning down" the interface, so it'd need to be done > very subtly. But it's worth exploring! > > Nyall > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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