[Soc-2013-dev] Weekly Report #9 Toolbar

[Sean Olson]

Past icons were built by Jendrzych (http://pixel-sized.blogspot.com/) and
you can get original svg on his blog or (I think) somewhere in SVN.  You
might want to ask him if he has available time to help out.  The other
thing is that you do have a large artist population at your back, given
this is an art tool.  Start a thread on BA asking for help.  I would like
to note that Ton in the past has vetoed icons because they did not fit with
the style of the current icon set, so it might be beneficial to specify
exactly what you need and what is likely to be accepted into trunk.

If I recall, one of the main arguments against icons for tools was that
there would be so many, and it would be a big workload.  I personally like
them much better, but creating an iconset for all the tools is going to be
a big task in and of itself.

relevent (old) thread:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?84971-icons-for-Blender-2-5


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Vincent Akkermans <vincent at ack-err.net>wrote:

> == This Week ==
>
>
> This week I've implemented a new top toolbar for the View3D editor. It is
> a conventional horizontal menu to provide better access to the many
> available commands in minimal space. The idea is that this frees up space
> from the left sidebar for tool options and custom panels.
>
>
> Below the top toolbar will sit a horizontal icon shelf where users can add
> any operator by dragging or by right clicking an operator button and
> selecting the 'add to icon shelf' option. It is also possible to create
> custom panels in for the left sidebar (current toolbar). Both the icon
> shelf buttons and the custom panels are saved in the blend file.
>
>
> == Next Week ==
>
>
> * Finish UI for custom panels / menubars (removing and renaming of panels,
> drag and drop)
>
>
> == Questions ==
>
>
> The icon shelf relies on a fair number of operators being associated with
> icons. I've got two questions regarding this:
>
>
> 1. How should we go about creating these icons? What is a good process for
> doing this and who should we ask?
>
>
> 2. What is a good way of linking operator types to icons? I imagine the
> best way would be to extend the RNA properties of the wmOperatorType with
> an "icon" int.
>
>
>
>
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