[Bf-committers] General purpose icons for Blender Addons?

[patrick boelens]

I agree custom icons would be more versatile and fill a need, but I also think a good set of default icons can ease the lives of a lot of devs. It's just cumbersome to have to worry about icons, especially if you want to match the existing ones' style somewhat.

Icons like weld/ connect, up- and download, reset, warning and driven (great catch on that one btw!) are incredibly generic. Weld/ connect could be useful for anything from springs and joints to Armature tools; upload could likely be repurposed for things like "export".

I would personally give "custom icons" higher priority, but I definitely agree more default icons would be nice. +1 from me.

> Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 22:25:03 +0200
> From: matmenu at live.fr
> To: bf-committers at blender.org
> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] General purpose icons for Blender Addons?
> 
> Good Idea, but better would be custom icons. As you said, every addon 
> has it's own need. Using one icon for different purpose is really 
> disturbing for the user. I can't believe we have volumetrics and SSS and 
> can't load an external png file for custom icons in 2015.
> 
> Le 08/05/2015 17:00, Ines Almeida a écrit :
> > I believe this is totally worth discussion too :)
> >
> > My comments:
> > - WARN (in addition to INFO and ERROR)  - seems good, though I would
> > associate the yellow triangle we already have with 'WARN' and something
> > more red with 'ERROR'
> > - RESET (Reset to defaults)  - is FILE_REFRESH not good for this?
> > - DOCUMENT (manual/wiki/online doc...) - what about URL ? there are also
> > multiple icons for file types (eg text)
> > - DOWNLOAD and UPLOAD seem important to me as well
> > - all the others I don't have a strong opinion pro or against
> >
> > ---
> > Inês Almeida / brita_
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