On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:47 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:45:17 -0700, "John C. Tull"
<john.t...@wildnevada.org> wrote:
Hi All,
Sorry to hijack the topic (and the dev x-post), but this thread
prompted me to bring up a general issue with custom symbols. The
current structure for adding new symbols on OS X is pretty poor
(perhaps on other OS's as well?). It requires the user to copy the
relevant svg files to a location inside of an application bundle.
Hence, the changes have to be done with every update of the program.
It would be much better if there was an svg directory inside of the
same directory where plugins are stored, ~/.qgis on OS X. This would
maintain symbols across versions and new builds of the program.
Hi all.
This has been discussed several times. I think a mechanism analogous
to the
py plugin installer would be the best, with the possibility of adding
symbols both from various repos and from local directories.
I think there should be a ticket open on this: could you please
check, and
if not, add it?
Thanks.
The repo idea is covered in ticket 1063:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1063
Another good idea regarding organization of svg symbols is to have the
sub-folders show up as available categories for users to select. This
would allow subsets of icons to be viewable rather than all icons at
once. You could still choose to view all at once, under the proposed
idea:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1066
As there was no ticket that I could find specific to the idea of
having user-provided svg symbols located in a location separate from
the application or an application bundle on at least some OS's, I've
created a ticket for that:
http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/2027
Cheers,
John
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