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On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:15 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Just note that we can ship a older icon "theme" and use the theme switcher > feature which would allow people to change back if required. > > Default to the new one but ship a lagacy theme. Have a look at Night > Mapping to see how it's done. > I would be -1 to do this - I think it is much better to have a consistent message and instantly recognisable app in screenshots etc. Moving from the 1.x theme to the 2.x theme was long and painful and I think if there was a lesson to be learned it was 'dont make multiple theme options otherwise people will never migrate to the new one and we will end up maintaining two themes". Regards Tim > > - Nathan > > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> > wrote: > >> Thanks John for your note. >> >> Il 28/02/2017 06:44, John Hawkinson ha scritto: >> >> > If there is a real value-add in the interface, OK. (But even then, >> > it can be frustrating to learn. Acceptable, but still frustrating.) >> > One extreme way to put it is: I would rather the bad interface that I >> know >> > rather than a marginally better interface that I don't know. It has to >> > be really good to be worth the pain. >> > >> > >> > I guess we're mostly talking about color changes, rather than moving >> > around tools and redesigning critical UI elements, so some of these >> > concerns are less strong. But I think they're still concerns? >> >> I fully understand your position, as well as the need to progress. >> I think we are only talking of changing the icons, not their placement >> or menu organization here (although this has been discussed previously, >> and may be worth exploring). >> One possible comproise (I'm sure many will object to this also) would >> be, as I mentioned, to have a "legacy mode" switch so people can move to >> the new icon set only when they feel comfortable with this. >> All the best. >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu >> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html >> https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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