Hi Paul,

  I think the menu icons are fine and great for new users.  The + icon on
the toolbor is for ESRI users like the reviewer and long-time JUMP users.
It is more important to please both users than following an kind of design
aesthetic.

Larry

On 10/31/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Larry,
>
> I think we should have our own GUI/Icon style rather than just following
> the design of ESRI tools, Now when coming up with that style we can take
> into account design elements such as what is used in general software
> and also GIS software so that any computer user would be able to work
> out the function of the icon.
>
> As a compramise, let's have the following icons for the open menu items
> and toolbar (slightly different from now)
>
> Open... The folder with the +
> Open File... The folder with a page
> Open Project.. The folder with the project you created.
>
>
> Uwe,
>
> I'm not sure why you think the new Open Wizard is a hard way to load
> PostGIS tables, in the old method you selected a drop down then entered
> the parameters. With the new one you double click an icon and then enter
> the parameters. And if someone wants to they can create a new panel for
> the parameters to include validation of those parameters,
>
> Paul
>
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