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

Jacob Merrill blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com
Sat May 9 04:45:28 CEST 2015


*my silly phone auto corrected liberary into literary....
On May 8, 2015 7:44 PM, "Jacob Merrill" <blueprintrandom1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In a game called armored core, you made icons using a set of generic
shapes and a number of layers and adjustments like scale, color, invert
pattern, etc. this way a small literary can make almost any icon.....
>
> maybe have a little icon builder?
>
> On May 8, 2015 3:43 PM, "Jambay" <Jambay at cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I don't have an answer, but do have a suggestion. First, and foremost, I
>> agree that this needs work/discussion. I would propose a "master set" of
>> icons for core Blender features, that others may use as well.
Additionally,
>> a general set, still common to Blender operations, but commonly accepted
for
>> UI purposes. After that it's custom and you have to explain to users why
it
>> isn't there (if they actually care) - the "label" shoul suffice.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Gaia" <gaia.clary at machinimatrix.org>
>> To: "bf-blender developers" <bf-committers at blender.org>
>> Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 2:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] General purpose icons for Blender Addons?
>>
>>
>> Honestly after trying to invent some custom icons
>> for our website i finally gave up on this because its really not
>> an easy task to create a good (meaningful) icon and keep
>> compatible with the common style of the rest of the application.
>>
>> Also, think of 2 Addons which use different icons for the
>> same logical task... Wouldn't that become "Big Buck Messy" at
>> the end? And furthermore, what if the creator of one Addon
>> would  like to reuse the icons from another Addon, exactly to
>> avoid reinventing the wheel?
>>
>> So after carefully thinking for some time about this topic i
>> clearly favorize the creation of a set of generic icons over
>> getting the ability to create own custom icons.
>>
>> Honestly it would take a burden from me to "also" think
>> about awesome custom icons on top of creating an awesome
>> plugin :-\ And no, i think incorporating font awesome is
>> probably not the answer (because of its very different style) .
>>
>> -gaia-
>>
>> On 08.05.2015 22:59, patrick boelens wrote:
>> > 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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