Posted by LordOfBikes on Jan 25, 2015; 11:42am
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Need-an-icon-for-Help-Layer-in-the-layer-widget-tp5710864p5711019.html

stranger573,

there is nothing wrong with your opinion, I mostly agree with your point of view, if I would start a new project.

But for the current task, my focus was on construction layer feature. For this I enhanced the GUI part as it is already done in the code base.
Concerning the cropped images, it's a matter of wrong column width. I'll adjust this.

As I already wrote, there is enough scope to improve the way of dealing with GUI icons. Doing this in an existing code base is not a simple task. One has to consider the multi platform capability with lot of different look and feels and there are still different approaches in the existing code base. It's up to somebody to take this challenge, but not for a coming 2.0.x release I think. There is too much space to break the stability we have reached. Maybe for a 2.1 release, but it should be a must for LibreCAD 3 to have multiple icon themes to match different desktops.

With your icons for file import/export I started to build a SVG file for each single icon. This makes exporting the PNG files much easier.
I've added copyright and license information in document meta data to do justice for contributors.
I'd like to add a SVG template and instructions to wiki or code base as a starting point for future contributors.

Armin