I agree, no pencils, no magnifying glass. By the way, anyone else thinks the .lib file icons in the navigation looks weird? If it's meant to look like a few stacked books, why are they tilted in weird directions?
On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 12:26 AM, Simon Wells <swel...@gmail.com> wrote: > if the modedit/libedit icons are to be reverted then i believe the pencils > should be removed, seeing as they were used to portray edit i believe but > now that pcbnew/eeschema don’t have them they just seem odd > > On 7/01/2018, at 2:28 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have been intending to revert the annotate icon in eeschema to the old > one, which made much more sense to me thatn the current one. > > 2018-01-07 1:24 GMT+01:00 Oliver Walters <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>: > >> I have attached a patchset which performs the following: >> >> 1. Revert libedit icon to previous version >> 2. Revert modedit icon to previous version >> 3. Updates pcbnew icon to look more like a PCB >> 4. Update colors of eeschema icon >> 5. Various (almost imperceptible) tweaks to a number of icons to fix >> graphic alignment issues >> >> Here is a screenshot of the updated icons: >> >> >> <Selection_010.png> >> >> >> <Selection_009.png> >> >> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Oliver Walters < >> oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> On 7 Jan 2018 05:04, "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> I wish we had something resembling a policy for icons. It seems like >>> someone always wants to change them. We had decent icons for these >>> _before_, and then someone submitted new ones, and they were accepted >>> because... I don't know? Many of the new icons are really ambiguous and >>> kind of useless. Shouldn't have been merged. >>> >>> >>> This is why I'm pushing for *a* change and not *my* change, I remember >>> how the argument went last time, before they were silently merged. >>> >>> I also note that there is a lack of consistency between similar icons. >>> e.g. there are many icons which incorporate an arrow but the style/shape of >>> the arrows varies. >>> >>> For the record, I like these proposed ones. They bring back the ability >>> to recognize them at a glance. >>> >>> On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 05:52:49PM +0000, kristoffer Ödmark wrote: >>> > I would love to see improved icons, I still never get used to them so >>> i read >>> > the tooltip, newer know which one is pcb and which one is module >>> editor. >>> > >>> > Luckily most of the time I only need to double click the kicad_pcb file >>> > anyway :) >>> > >>> > >>> > On 2018-01-06 15:08, Nick Østergaard wrote: >>> > > 2018-01-06 14:15 GMT+01:00 Jeff Young <j...@rokeby.ie >>> > > <mailto:j...@rokeby.ie>>: >>> > > >>> > > +1 >>> > > >>> > > And I like Oliver’s proposed icons. I’d suggest two further >>> > > changes though: >>> > > >>> > > 1) The schematic icon (which Oliver didn’t change) should really >>> > > use the default colours (dark red symbols, green wires). Then >>> > > there’s a stronger tie-in with the libedit icon. >>> > > >>> > > 2) I think I’d drop the dimensions from the modedit icon, and >>> > > change the pad colour to the default (yellow). >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > The default pad color is not yellow, that is only what you see for >>> THT >>> > > pads. Default pad color is green for bottom and red for top copper >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > 3) Projects should use the current New Project icon, rather than >>> > > the application icon. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I have considered to submit a patch for this for some time, but I >>> guess >>> > > it is an appropiate time to do this with a major version bump. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > 4) Both the New Project and New Project from Template icons >>> should >>> > > get yellow “new” star. >>> > > >>> > > 5) New Footprint in modedit also needs the star, and the star on >>> > > New Symbol in libedit made more prominent. >>> > > >>> > > Cheers, >>> > > Jeff. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > > On 6 Jan 2018, at 12:30, Oliver Walters >>> > > > <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com >>> > > > <mailto:oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> > > > >>> > > > I think there is a need to tweak the libedit and modedit icons, >>> > > > as identified below: >>> > > > >>> > > > <Selection_006.png> >>> > > > >>> > > > <Selection_007.png> >>> > > > >>> > > > 1. The blue 'textured' background is out of place with the >>> other >>> > > > icons >>> > > > 2. They are very cluttered and hard to read >>> > > > 3. Weirdly specific callout of dimensions and part names (out >>> of >>> > > > character with other icons) >>> > > > >>> > > > Further, I think that the pcbnew icon could be adjusted >>> slightly >>> > > > to make it look a bit more like a PCB >>> > > > >>> > > > Even as someone who uses KiCad on a regular basis I find myself >>> > > > double checking which icon I am about to click on (and still >>> > > > getting it wrong half of the time). >>> > > > >>> > > > Below is a /**suggestion**/ of some improvements. I am not >>> trying >>> > > > to back my own horse here, I'd be happy for anyone else to >>> > > > suggest a better design for any of these. But I feel that >>> > > > changing these icons would be a good improvement to make before >>> > > > the v5 release. 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