On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 21:57, Jonathan Moules <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi List, > > The more I look at the current SVG icons, the more I'm thinking it > really needs some TLC (Tender Loving Care). As far as I can tell, icons > are categorised by the directory they're in, so if you want an icon to > appear in two categories, you put the icon in there twice... and so > that's just what has happened! I suspect the current set has simply > accreted over time.
For reference: I'm totally in agreement that we need to improve the DEFAULT set of svg files, and that the resource sharing plugin isn't the best solution here. It's a great solution for some use cases, but we need to improve the out-of-the-box experience in this regard and that means extending the default set. > My thoughts: > * Move the svg's into a single directory. (Though would break any > current projects symbology using them I guess?) Yes -- we CAN'T do this. What we've got now has to stay, in its current structure, and without renaming. > * Use a metadata file to categorise them, so you get a list of > categories as now and a single symbol can be in multiple categories. We could potentially add tags to the svg files themselves to add this information. > * Add a search feature so the user can quickly find "museum" without > having to guess where it has been categorised. Big +1 to this. Especially if we also add search by tag support! > * Clean up the current symbols by removing duplicates. Again, we can't do this without risking breaking people's existing projects (which is off-limits!) > * Add the font-awesome symbols (per my thread on the User List) to fill > in the gaps and flesh out the collection. As a bonus, it comes with > metadata for categories and search terms (YAML files). > > * bonus - metadata is internationalised so "museo" (IT), "muzeu" (RO), > etc would also work for finding that museum. > > Thoughts? Sounds good to me! To clarify -- are you volunteering to lead this effort? Nyall > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
