Icon set

[peteruithoven]

Finding a better and free (freedom) icon set.

The Noun project is very interesting. http://thenounproject.com/

And there are some free icon fonts, but you can notice it's in the world of designers, where the idea of opensource hasn't really gotten far yet. So you find mainly free as in free beer. http://weloveiconfonts.com/ http://css-tricks.com/flat-icons-icon-fonts/ (some free) http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

These are really free though: http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome

Make this set visually compatible and fit for Visicut.

Icons needed:

• add (+)
• remove (-)
• move up
• move down
• undo (changes in lasersettings)
• save (I hope to find something with a more up to date reference than a floppy disk, like the icon in Ubuntu.
• edit settings (currently a gear)
• zoom in
• zoom out
• zoom to fit laser bed
• zoom to fill screen
• zoom to actual size

Comments and suggestions welcome.

[peteruithoven]

The icons I contributed so far:

• add
• remove
• move up
• move down
• undo

I'm planning to make at least the + and - a bit smaller.

[t-oster]

I refactored the code a bit, so it will be easier to add and change icons. Tell me, when you have them ready.

[peteruithoven]

I've bin doing some more research into icons, finding sets like: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/ http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/ http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/ http://codefisher.org/pastel-svg/

An overview of the Tango icons Inkscape uses: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Themable_icons

Icon theme guidelines: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines

Standard naming specifications: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification

I think you currently use Tango on Ubuntu.

I'm looking for icons sets that have platform specific versions, to match the style of platforms like OS X and Windows.

[peteruithoven]

Small update; my first selection:

It's probably going to be Tango, I believe Inkscape, Gimp and Ubuntu this or extensions of it.

[peteruithoven]

I really like the looks of the Elementary OS icons, but no clue how to extract / acces them. http://elementaryos.org/journal/icons-30-begin-testing-luna

I anyone has tips, that would be very welcome.

[peteruithoven]

Just for reference, zooming icons in InkScape: In Gimp:

Illustrator and Photoshop don't really use icons, just text.

[peteruithoven]

Alright, this would be my first proposal, what do you guys think? (the transparent icons are alternatives)

Do you guys like the idea of separate file add / remove icons?

I don't really get how the current "Zoom to fill screen" works in Visicut? I just created the zoom icons as consistently as possible with InkScape and Gimp.

I tried to use the exsisting files as much as possible, but I could tweak some if we think that's better.

[t-oster]

I like the elementary OS icons, too. I think the current GTK icons are too gnome-ish for other OS like Mac OSX. I think you can get the icons here: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~danrabbit/elementaryicons/3.0/files (you can also checkout the complete structure with bzr).

[t-oster]

Do we need to mention them in our license/readme?

[peteruithoven]

I agree.

Great, found a downloads part on that Launchpad page. https://launchpad.net/elementaryicons/+download

I'll check the licenses. Because I used a collection, with multiple sources there are a lot. http://openiconlibrary.sourceforge.net/LICENSES.html I need to check the sources of the selected icons.

[t-oster]

I'd like to take as many icons from the elementary-set as possible to be consistent and avoid licensing issues.... which ones are missing?

[peteruithoven]

Maybe I don't get Launchpad, I can't find the gray icons (not online or in the files that you can download). http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~danrabbit/elementaryicons/3.0/view/head:/actions/16/go-up.svg

Might also have something to do with their Symbolic Icons system they mention on the following page. http://elementaryos.org/journal/icons-30-begin-testing-luna Maybe they adjust the colors in the svg's based on other theme colors.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to create a derivative icon set if we want it less Gnome'ish.

[peteruithoven]

So I've bin trying to look into sources of the icons I like, so we can license properly (which is also important when I create derivatives). Not sure about the Tango for Inkscape part, very untransparent stuff. I'm pretty sure about the zooming icons seeing the following images: http://jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/inkscape-icons-tango.jpg http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelgr/2570195247/ No clue yet how to property credit the Tango for Inkscape icons... Very frustrating.

So we got:

Tango Icon Library 0.8.90 (tango)
    link: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
    license: Public Domain 
    License link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain
    formats: svg, png
    subdirectory: open_icon_library-devel/icons/tango

FAMFAMFAM Silk Icons 1.3 (famfamfam-silk)
    link: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/
    license: CC-BY-2.5 or CC-BY-3.0
    license link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
            http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/
    formats: png
    subdirectory: open_icon_library-devel/icons/famfamfam-silk

Inkscape (inkscape)
    link: http://www.inkscape.org/
    license: GPLv2
    license link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/GPL/2.0/
    format: svg 
    subdirectories: open_icon_library-devel/icons_by_subject/inkscape

(Not sure if the Inkscape license applies to the current/old or new Tango icons)

I'm now trying to contact one of the designers who worked on icons for InkScape and one of the designers behind Elementary.

[peteruithoven]

Alright, for the current Icons I have:

Icons designed by Andreas Nilsson, Jakub Steiner, Lapo Calamandrei, Jesús David Navarro, Michael Grosberg, Guillermo Espertino and the designers behind the Tango, Tango ArtLibre and FAMFAMFAM Silk icon libraries . 

[peteruithoven]

Found the gray Elementary (Symbolic) icons: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~danrabbit/elementaryicons/3.0/files/head:/actions/symbolic/

[peteruithoven]

Another update, these are the new icons: Some of them came from the Elementary icons, some of them I designed myself, all of them are inspired by the work of the above mentioned designers.

Overview

Feedback is still very welcome. I'm waiting for issue #128 to implement them into VisiCut and do a pull request.

[peteruithoven]

Defining the size for buttons is very frustrating in 7.0.1, to put it mildly. It didn't work at all for the add-file icon, so need help on that. Also, even tough I made a branch locally it pushed it straight into the development branch. My apologies. (To many steps to fuck up for someone who does this infrequently)

[t-oster]

I removed you from the colaborators list, so you can not accidentally push something. I just added you, so I could assign an issue to you, but I think it is easier, if everybody just sends pull-requests. Otherwise I would have to add all the others, too and then it could get messed up easily... I hope you agree.

[t-oster]

So... we consider this as fixed?

[peteruithoven]

No not yet, I'm going to get the MainView from before my changes and redo all the changes, hopefully solving the button size issues. But I'm very close to a deadline of a tightly scheduled project at the moment, so this might take 1 or 2 weeks.

[t-oster]

Hi. I think the icons look pretty good now. The only remaining question is: Should we use our icons on all platforms or use the platform-native ones where possible (e.g. right now we use the GTK icons in Linux if possible)

[peteruithoven]

I'm not happy yet with the save icon and the add file button is resizing strangely, but I think we could close this issue.

I believe a application should adapt to what people are used to, on a lot of Linux distributions people are probably used to the GTK icons. So if we can I would prefer using the platform icons (GTK icons in the case of linux).

I'm finishing up a big project (the reason why I was unavailable for a while) so I should be able to contribute a bit more soon.

[t-oster]

The add file button resizing was fixed by me some commits ago.. did you try the latest version?

[peteruithoven]

Yeah, when I use it I usually download the latest version. But you are right, the add file button size was fixed, I didn't notice.

[t-oster]

So... should we consider this as fixed, or are you planning changes on the icons?

[peteruithoven]

I'm still thinking about the save icon, but I guess this issue could be closed.