Hi Larry and team,
On 23.01.2013 01:10, Larry Shaffer wrote:
(...)
1) Create a new graphics repository at github.com <http://github.com>,
e.g. named 'qgis-graphics'.
It is important that a single repository exist where
designers/developers can find and work on SVG originals/components for
(...)
From technical point of view, will we improve somehow accessibility for
designers moving from OSGeo Graphics to GITHub?
OSGeo Graphics is updated based on different requests (QGIS, GRASS and
others). I would prefer to treat 'any' OSGeo repository (at OSGeo or
github) as main point for graphics dissemination.
My point is - lets find the simplest environment for designers, but
common for OSGeo projects. If we want seperate QGIS icons repo (on
github), it can be synchronized/copied from central OSGeo. Or made as
sub-folder/sub-project.
2) Condense current icons/pixmaps used in QGIS from all themes into just
the default theme, with preference to vote-preferred GIS theme. Move the
discarded icons and themes to the graphics repo, for later reference.
+1
3) Copy any relevant SVG/pixmap sources from OSGeo repo [0] and Robert
Szczepanek's source icon work (that may not be in current source code
repo) [2] to new qgis-graphics repository.
I moved all my work to OSGeo Graphics to avoid duplication. Duplicating
it in qgis-graphics will make work harder. Unless it will be some
synchro mechanism, which I'm not familiar with.
4) Try to convert ALL new default theme icons to SVG, which may mean
recreating many as vector art since the embedded-raster-in-SVG method
doesn't seem to work well now (causes ugly upscaling) [3]. It should be
possible to fix that issue in code, allowing for use of
pixmaps-inside-SVG, until they are converted to vector-based SVGs.
This is the point I would prefer to focus on, not administering two repos.
* Maybe look into some funding for someone, like Robert, to work on 1)
thru 4).
For me, at the moment, it is more matter of time (lack of), not money.
And anyone is welcome to supply OSGeo repo.
For coders, please just open appropriate tickets at OSGeo Graphics as
not always I can follow fast QGIS progress.
By the way - great work Larry on QGIS improvement.
regards,
Robert
[0] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/browser/graphics
[1] https://github.com/qgis/Quantum-GIS/pull/398/files
[2] http://robert.szczepanek.pl/icons.php
[3]
http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/SVG-Icons-instead-of-PNGs-td4991647.html
[4]
http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/Cast-your-vote-Default-icon-theme-for-QGIS-2-0-td4987107.html
See also: http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Icons_20
Regards,
Larry Shaffer
Dakota Cartography
Black Hills, South Dakota
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