Posted by rk-list on Jan 23, 2013; 12:40am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Re-original-icons-tp5707480.html

Hi,

thanks for your answers.

> The color was chosen so that we showed a unique color and some primary colors
> where already used, green apparently not.
Ok, I see. But full-bright-green does not seem to be a good choice -- it
was a pain in my eyes the first time I saw LibreCAD and it still is.

> Color is also a matter of taste, however they shouldn't be obfuscated.
For me, the original QCad-icons are often much more clean and intuitive.

> 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.
Hmm, it seems that in LibreCAD, the icons are drawn as SVGs, then converted
to 150x150 pixel pngs, and then again are rescaled in LibreCAD, which results
in somehow blurry icons. Wouldn't it be better to export the SVGs to pngs
in the correct resolution, instead of this two-time-rescale?

Additionally, I would suggest to use default-icons for standard-tasks
like new, open, save, print, redo, undo etc.  Does Qt4 contain such
default-icons, like e.g. GTK does?


> 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!
I now redraw some of the QCad-icons in Inkscape, and used icons from the
tango-icon-theme for some standard-tasks (but there are probably better
icons for this; I even think of using/redrawing stock-GTK-icons... ;)).
I then (more or less automatically) exported the Inkscape-icons to pngs,
and recompiled LibreCAD. You can see a screenshot of LibreCAD with some
of the QCad-like icons at
http://www.simple-is-better.org/librecad-qcad-icons.png

Are you interested in adding such icons to LibreCAD?
If so, I probably will complete the QCad-like icon set.

And do you know where I can find Qt4-standard-icons (for new/open/save
etc.), or is it possible to tell Qt4 to use standard-icons (like in GTK)?

regards
Roland