Re: Icons for the GUI

[Torsten]

On 24.02.2015 22:29, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 02/24/2015 03:12 PM, Torsten wrote:
>> On 16.02.2015 18:54, John W. Eaton wrote:
>>> On 02/14/2015 06:09 AM, Torsten wrote:
>>>
>>>> What about the window-icons of the gui's dock-widgets? Currently, these
>>>> are 32x32 png files in libgui/src/icons. I guess they should also be
>>>> available as svg only in the repository.
>>>
>>> I think it would be preferable if they can also be generated in various
>>> sizes as required from some resolution independent format.
>>>
>>> Overall, I think we need to take a look at the icons we are using and
>>> try to come up with a consistent set.  It currently seems as though we
>>> have a random collection of various icons.  Some are color, others are
>>> not and they don't appear to me as if they have any kind of consistent
>>> styling.
>>>
>>
>> What do you think of the tango icon set (http://tango.freedesktop.org/)?
>> Since qt has an svg icon engine (I have not yet tested it) we could
>> directly use the svg-icons included in the tango set.
> 
> Is there a location for a full set of samples?  From what I've seen they
> look OK to me and certainly more consistent than what we currently have.
> 

This is the archive:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/releases/tango-icon-theme-0.8.90.tar.gz

Some special icons are missing like the ones for debugging or setting
breakpoints

Torsten