I am in favor of pencil removal too. What do you think about keeping the page with a folded corner as the icon base, and depending on the editor:
- a part of schematic (like we have now) - a single component - a part of layout (like we have now) - a single footprint to show what is the editor target. Perhaps for a single component/footprints there could be dimension lines (as usual in blueprints) shown to stress the single instance. Regards, Orson On 07/06/2016 12:21 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: > Hi Wayne, > I would strongly advise to get rid of the idea of having to put a pencil to > teach people that the program that they are going to open is going to be an > "editing" software and not a "viewing" software. In my opinion this > differentiation is not necessary and quite old style. Just click on the > Linux Menu button and have a look around. > > Using the same reasoning, it might not be really necessary to teach people > that the library icon is a symbol library icon and not some sort of > library. You are right, we do have two kind of library editors (symbol and > footprint) and that is a little problematic. Ideally we should have only > one icon (one program) that allows to do both editing. But we dont. > Naturally the look of these two icons might have to look similar. I find > the footprint editor a bit of secondary editor since packages are less > prone to change. I get your point anyway. > > Human footprint is a little inappropriate. Maybe this example could be more > likable. > > > cheers > Fabrizio > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 7/6/2016 3:20 AM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> few years have passed since the last main Kicad icon restyling. In my >>> opinion, the current icons are serving us quite well except for very few >>> which could use a little face lift. >>> >>> The few icons that make me particularly itchy are the main Kicad icons >>> for which this very imposing pencil does not play very well. I know that >>> some of your really want a pencil to suggest that those tools are for >>> editing. The truth is that now a days icons can be a little more subtle. >>> >>> I'd like to propose these new set of icons for the main KiCad toolbar. >>> Please let me know what you think and please if there is anybody who >>> wants to help out please, now is the moment. >>> >>> Cheers >>> Fabrizio >>> >> >> Fabrizio, >> >> The symbol library editor bitmap is too generic. We have two library >> editors, a symbol library editor and a footprint library editor. Your >> proposed symbol library editor icon is ambiguous (it just an icon for a >> library metaphor). If it had a symbol such as and op-amp superimposed >> over the top of the books, that may be more clear. I may also need some >> edit metaphor (such as the pencil in the current icon) as well because >> it could be confused as library viewer rather than and editor. Although >> our current icon is also ambiguous. It looks like you are going to open >> a text editor. >> >> Your footprint library editor icon could be confusing as well. Most PCB >> layout users are familiar with the concept of component footprints. >> It's what they do. The human footprint may be more familiar to >> non-technical users but I don't think that is relevant for KiCad users. >> There is also no edit metaphor. Perhaps you should use your symbol >> library editor icon with a component footprint and some edit metaphor >> (pencil?) superimposed over top of it for the footprint library editor >> icon. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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