[ICON REQUEST]: DaVinci Resolve

[KayleeDavisGitHub]

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About the icon

DaVinci is a competitor to Adobe products and is a technology for editing videos, applying color correction, and otherwise transforming video content. Given the inclusion of Adobe products (Photoshop, Aftereffects), this may fall within scope but may require further discussion.

Links and sources

About:

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve

Logo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DaVinci_Resolve#/media/File:DaVinci_Resolve_17_logo.svg

Additional information

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[Snailedlt]

Thanks for the suggestion :)

Since this is not strictly a development tool, we'll have to (like you said) discuss this further. ref: https://github.com/devicons/devicon/wiki/What-Icons-Do-We-Accept%3F#special-cases-see-this-discussion-for-more-details

I added the discussion and awaiting triage labels to the issue for that reason :)

[Snailedlt]

I'm not sure exactly what Davinci Resolve does, but it seems like it's mostly editing of videos. I couldn't find much use for it in software development, nor game development, so I'm not sure it is a great fit for devicons.

@BenSouchet I know you've done a fair bit of design and such. Do you think this icon should be added to devicons? Would be great to get some designer opinions

[KayleeDavisGitHub]

We're on the same wavelength @Snailedlt, I just saw Adobe Premiere Pro in the current list and given that Davinci is a direct competitor to this software, and is the preferred alternative by many to using this software, I thought it fit the scope through association. I did check the list and video editors are not specifically defined anywhere - close to a raster graphics editor maybe?

Definitely worth discussion because if DaVinci is added there are likely 5+ other video editors that I could think of to add, maybe all for good reason, or maybe the best bet is to remove Premiere & clarify the wiki.

[lunatic-fox]

Agree with @KayleeDavisGitHub about clarify the wiki.

[Snailedlt]

Agreed! But before we can do that, we need to figure out if video editors should be allowed or not. My vote is on disallowing it, since it's not a tool most developers need afaik.

Open to discussion though, and ultimately up to the community as a whole to make the decision!

[lunatic-fox]

I also vote the same: disallow icons related to video editors. So I thought in other questions that may appear and some solutions to them.

I think this could be applied to image/graphic editors too.

graph TD;
q1{{Video editors related icons are disallowed?}}
y1{{Should we keep the existing related icons?}}
n1["Create a new category on 'Allowed' in the Wiki."]

q1 -- Yes --> y1 q1 -- No --> n1

y2[Create a list of exceptions in the Wiki.] n2["Update 'Not Allowed (not exhaustive)' in the Wiki."] n2a[Remove related icons in the next version of Devicon.]

y1 -- Yes --> y2 y1 -- No --> n2 --> n2a

[Snailedlt]

Nice flowchart @lunatic-fox

I vote for taking the left route... just modify it a bit:

So video editors are generally disallowed, we should keep the existing icons for backwards-compatability, and we should update the wiki with a point under Not Allowed, and crucially also make a list of exceptions, or maybe rather make a more clear point under special cases. The point can say something along the lines of:

A lot of icons were added before these rules. Even if they DO NOT follow the rules, they should be kept up to date, and should (for backwards-compatability reasons) NOT be removed

[KayleeDavisGitHub]

For what it's worth I think this makes sense as well :)