Hope the final gis theme looks not so foreign (aka "odd looking") in the Mac OS X.
Gis theme looks nice in Ubuntu. Noli On 4/17/13, Tim Sutton <li...@linfiniti.com> wrote: > Hi > > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Larry Shaffer <lar...@dakotacarto.com> > wrote: > > 8<------snip-------------- > >>> One consequence of eliminating the "classic" theme as an option is a lot >>> of otherwise good, general documentation (articles, blog posts, >>> stackexchange posts, books) will be crippled. >> > > I think most users would figure out the difference, though I guess it > would be confusing for complete newbies. Since GIS 2.0 will ship with > the GIS theme activated by default (and it would show up on all > computers as default since QGIS 2.0 has a discrete settings archive) > having or not having the old theme won't make any difference to the > user's out of box experience. You would need to go back to old > materials and instruct the user to switch themes in the options dialog > before those materials could make sense to them. > >> >> * When developing or updating an icon for a 2.0+ feature, only one icon >> is >> made for the new theme, and then copied to the classic theme, i.e. >> minimal >> development time spent on the old theme. >> > > There should be no need for this - if the new theme is the default any > other theme should fall back to it if an icon is not present (assuming > the original logic I wrote for that has not since been removed). > >> * After 2.0 is released, remove the classic theme from master branch and >> only move forward with the new theme. This assumes that between 2.0 and >> 2.1 >> many of the screen captures can be updated. Still not helpful for a book, >> however. >> >> Thoughts on those ideas? >> > > Personally I think that just defers the problem. > > Regards > > Tim > > > -- > Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) > ============================================== > Please do not email me off-list with technical > support questions. Using the lists will gain > more exposure for your issues and the knowledge > surrounding your issue will be shared with all. > > Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: > * QGIS programming and support services > * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans > * FOSS Consulting Services > Skype: timlinux > Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net > ============================================== > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer