Re: Icons for the GUI

[Torsten]

On 24.02.2015 22:42, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 02/24/2015 02:12 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.
> 
> What icons are people referring to?  It seemed to me that at first the
> Octave GUI was supplying it's own icons, but Qt has many definitions for
> standard operations like "open", "clipboard", "alert", etc.  When these
> are used, the icons match the look and feel of the user's desktop.
> 

Are you refering to QIcon::fromTheme ()? This does not work on Mac and
Windows (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qicon.html#fromTheme). However, we can
use theme icons and provide fallback icons. This is already done for the
icons of the file->close... menu entries in the editor.

Torsten