Inspiration from Google's material design icons? (permissively-licensed) . These could be overlaid in the bottom right quarter maybe? [image: Inline image 3] [image: Inline image 1] [image: Inline image 2]
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:09 PM, Oliver Walters < oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, that's good to hear. I will take another look at the Gerber icons and > otherwise see if anyone can suggest some simple clean replacements for the > arrows. If not, I'll push a patch. > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 8:05 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> One good thing about bitmaps is they are low risk (other than the >> complaining that will surely ensue) so we can merge them just about any >> time. I don't want to wait too long so our doc images can be updated to >> reflect the changes so if we cannot come up with better alternatives to >> replace the arrows, I'm OK with leaving them as is and pushing it off >> until v6. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Wayne >> >> On 1/9/2018 3:31 PM, Jeff Young wrote: >> > I think the changes are absolutely good in general, and I’d very much >> > like to see them get merged. Not that I have any control over that. ;) >> > >> > As for the arrows, I’d still really like to see them go away. The >> > colour isn’t the problem, it’s the arrows themselves. ANY of the >> > alternatives discussed (that don’t include arrows) would be better. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Jeff. >> > >> > >> >> On 9 Jan 2018, at 20:13, Oliver Walters >> >> <oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com >> >> <mailto:oliver.henry.walt...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> The coloured arrows were already in place, all I have done is made >> >> them all the same "style". In fact, previously concepts like "save" >> >> and "load" were conveyed both with a downward pointing arrow, and the >> >> arrow colour was the only point of difference. >> >> >> >> I thought I had made an improvement on what was already existing. My >> >> intent was not to necessarily do a sweeping redesign. >> >> >> >> If this is now an additional requirement I can make these not arrows, >> >> but I'd like some direction on what to do instead. It will be hard to >> >> fit a more detailed icon. >> >> >> >> Other than this, what are your thoughts overall? Is it worth my time >> >> pursuing this further? Are these changes good in general and can you >> >> see them being merged? >> >> >> >> On 10 Jan 2018 04:44, "Wayne Stambaugh" <stambau...@gmail.com >> >> <mailto:stambau...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >> On 1/9/2018 12:05 PM, Rene Pöschl wrote: >> >> > On 09/01/18 16:50, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >> >> >> I'm with Jose on the arrows. If we are going to use them, >> >> please don't >> >> >> make the all different colors. I don't see how a blue left >> >> arrow versus >> >> >> a magenta right arrow conveys any meaning to the user. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > I like the idea of coloring them differently. For me this will >> >> give an >> >> > additional way to distinguish the buttons. (Some of them have >> >> only the >> >> > direction of the arrow as a difference. Which is easily >> >> overlooked.) I >> >> > hope having different colors will make it easier for my brain to >> >> > remember which button does what. (I can't tell you how often i >> >> clicked >> >> > load symbol instead of update symbol while working on the >> >> reorganization >> >> > of the official lib.) >> >> >> >> What information does the different color arrow convey? If you are >> >> using different colors for contrast, that is one thing but just >> making >> >> them different colors for informational purposes doesn't make any >> >> sense >> >> to me. If you are trying convey information with different color >> >> buttons, what is the impact on users who are color blind. >> >> >> >> > >> >> > Maybe there is a better way to communicate differences but if >> >> buttons >> >> > look as similar as a lot of them currently do, adding >> >> differentiating >> >> > colors might help. >> >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> >> > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> >> <mailto:kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net> >> >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers> >> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> <https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> >> <mailto: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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