On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Zer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List! > > OpenLayers is great! Thanks to all of you that have been participating in > the development. But... there is always things that can be better. > > We all know that the default icons used for the various controls, i.e. the > navigation toolbar and editing toolbar, have seen their best days long ago. > I know that it's pretty easy to replace them with your own icons, but how do > you find, or make, icons that are good? They have to look nice and be > intuitive so that the users understand what they are meant to be used for. > > Does anyone have suggestions of good icons to use for the various controls? > I am specifically interested in > > - a better looking ZoomBox. > - better looking Navigation, PanPanel and ZoomPanel. > - an intuitive icon for the SelectFeature control. > - an intuitive icon for zooming to the extent of a feature. > > I guess there is some sort of international standard that would be nice to > follow for these tools? Does anyone know of a good site with icons like > these? Or maybe we could all try and come up with some nice icons here? > > Thanks, > > -Z
I am a traditionalist (old fart) that thinks buttons should look like they did in Windows 3.0, ArcView 3.0, MapInfo 3.0.... If you like that look you can grab mine at: http://www.co.sweet.wy.us/mapserver/map.html -- Richard Greenwood [email protected] www.greenwoodmap.com _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
