we decided to port QCad to Qt4 and rename it.
Unfortunately, librecad is currently unusable for me: All icons have
changed, and seem to have been mirrored(!), turned to extremely-ugly
neon-green(!) and then partly obfuscated. Is there a reason why you
did not use the original icons? QCad2 was released under GPL, and I did
not find any special license for the icons.
The color was chosen so that we showed a unique color and some primary colors
where already used, green apparently not.
Color is also a matter of taste, however they shouldn't be obfuscated.
Additionally, the original icons where in low resolution pixmaps and with today's
standards they would show up to small, or scaled up and pixelated.
At the time the when this color schema was used and the icons where created by an
artist the LibeCAD community was relative small and we where already happy
that somebody volunteered for this task so we where already happy this was
done!
(Since the icons are *really* annoying, I will probably replace them by
the original icons before using/testing librecad, but I would prefer the
official librecad-version also gets usable icons…)
We have on our TODO to have the icons be replaced using theming supports,
unfortunately we currently have other priorities but we welcome any people
that want to take up this task.
Ries
regards
Roland
[1] Unfortunately, Debian also deleted the (perfectly working) QCad 2
from Squeeze!! I of course understand that they removed it from Wheezy,
since Wheezy does not contain Qt3 anymore. But I will never understand why
they also removed it from *stable* (Squeeze), although it was perfectly
working, and so intentionally broke working installations.... *wtf?*
Such behaviour would be a good reason to use a different distribution...
[2] Btw, QCad 3 is *extremely slow* on older systems, and so it's no
alternative to QCad 2.