Since icons can be easily changed via the new theme support, I've restored the z-order, flip, and calligraphic icons to their original state, to maintain the 0.40 look. I think if we're going to _change_ existing icons, it should be subtle (adjustments) or whole-sale (total replacement of everything). Any personalized tweaks can be done via the ~/.inkscape/icons/icons.svg file.
*eats salsa to prepare for flames*
Sounds like a good approach for handling icon changes. Do we have some documentation to explain what to do, for people who want to share their icons.svg themes with the community?
Bryce
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Kees Cook wrote:
Since icons can be easily changed via the new theme support, I've restored the z-order, flip, and calligraphic icons to their original state, to maintain the 0.40 look. I think if we're going to _change_ existing icons, it should be subtle (adjustments) or whole-sale (total replacement of everything). Any personalized tweaks can be done via the ~/.inkscape/icons/icons.svg file.
*eats salsa to prepare for flames*
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:18:06PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Sounds like a good approach for handling icon changes. Do we have some documentation to explain what to do, for people who want to share their icons.svg themes with the community?
I'm not sure where to put it. Have we documented the location of emergency save files? Best I can think of is to add it to the man page, but that doesn't really cover the Win32 installs.
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Kees Cook wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:18:06PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Sounds like a good approach for handling icon changes. Do we have some documentation to explain what to do, for people who want to share their icons.svg themes with the community?
I'm not sure where to put it. Have we documented the location of emergency save files? Best I can think of is to add it to the man page, but that doesn't really cover the Win32 installs.
Ah yes, the man page would be a good place for it. I'm not sure how we'd handle the Win32 installs either, but people can access our online version of the manpage.
It'd be a good idea to check that the save file location is mentioned in the manpage as well.
Possibly a pointer to the docs in the manpage and brief description could go into the FAQ as well.
Bryce
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:07:36 -0800 (PST) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> To: Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] icons restored
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Kees Cook wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:18:06PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Sounds like a good approach for handling icon changes. Do we have some documentation to explain what to do, for people who want to share their icons.svg themes with the community?
I'm not sure where to put it. Have we documented the location of emergency save files? Best I can think of is to add it to the man page, but that doesn't really cover the Win32 installs.
To avoid the necessity of documenting it (although documentation never hurst) you could change how it works.
Abiword for example in the event of a crash will put the file in the same directory but with a new name, usually .CRASHED (or possibly the less scarey .SAVED) gets appended to the filename.
Ah yes, the man page would be a good place for it. I'm not sure how we'd handle the Win32 installs either, but people can access our online version of the manpage.
If the command line arguments work on Windows I'd be well pleased to see a html version of the man page shipped with inkscape and either included with other documentation (preferably) or given a menu item in the Help menu.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Dia is for Diagrams http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:07:36PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Ah yes, the man page would be a good place for it. I'm not sure how we'd handle the Win32 installs either, but people can access our online version of the manpage.
Well, I added some nonsense to the .pod file. I'm not much of a tech writer. :)
THEMES To load different icons sets instead of the default $PRE- FIX/share/inkscape/icons/icons.svg file, the directory $HOME/.inkscape/icons/ is used. Icons are loaded by name (e.g. fill_none.svg), or if not found, then from icons.svg. If the icon is not loaded from either of those locations, it falls back to the default system location.
The needed icons are loaded from SVG files by searching for the SVG id with the matching icon name. (For example, to load the "fill_none" icon from a file, the bounding box seen for SVG id "fill_none" is ren- dered as the icon, whether it comes from fill_none.svg or icons.svg.)
Looks great!
Bryce
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Kees Cook wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:07:36PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Ah yes, the man page would be a good place for it. I'm not sure how we'd handle the Win32 installs either, but people can access our online version of the manpage.
Well, I added some nonsense to the .pod file. I'm not much of a tech writer. :)
THEMES To load different icons sets instead of the default $PRE- FIX/share/inkscape/icons/icons.svg file, the directory $HOME/.inkscape/icons/ is used. Icons are loaded by name (e.g. fill_none.svg), or if not found, then from icons.svg. If the icon is not loaded from either of those locations, it falls back to the default system location.
The needed icons are loaded from SVG files by searching for the SVG id with the matching icon name. (For example, to load the "fill_none" icon from a file, the bounding box seen for SVG id "fill_none" is ren- dered as the icon, whether it comes from fill_none.svg or icons.svg.)
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