Low hanging fruits
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Re: Low hanging fruits
I will do this at the end of the week or during the week in smaller chunks. Should i go over all of the current workbenches and try to do something like this for all of them:1. Replace hard coded workbech icons with image files.
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.../Resources/icons/Workbench_New.svg
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"Mod/Fem/Resources/icons/preferences-fem.svg"
"Mod/Drawing/Resources/icons/actions/drawing-landscape.svg"
Is that OK with others?
As for the icons themselves i will probably ask for opinion when in doubt. For example should i use this one for Arch WB:
Or the one for preferences purposes:
Is this one OK for OpenSCAD:
The following icons are of too low quality in my opinion and hopefully somebody provides better ones in the process:
- Points
- Reverse Engineering
- Test
http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/index.ph ... menu_Icons
Ship WB icon would probably be better if text would be removed?
No rush but i would like to hear some opinions on this and hopefully to get improved icons where that makes sense!
Edit: Found the one for Path WB:
Re: Low hanging fruits
I read FreeCAD 0.16 thread and basically FreeCAD 0.16 is in "feature freeze" state. Therefore i guess it makes little difference if i do the work now or a bit latter after FreeCAD 0.16 is released. As for policy i will add separate icon for each workbench:
As preferences icon is a different thing. This is mostly targeted towards any potential future FreeCAD icon packs as workbench icon and preferences icon should allow to be styled separately.
Anyway when i will have something i will notify you on the progress.
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.../Resources/icons/Workbench_Name.svg
Anyway when i will have something i will notify you on the progress.
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Would be good if other devs share their opinion on this one:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11429&p=115248#p115248
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11429&p=115248#p115248
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One thing i don't like too much is potential icon packs won't be able to change workbench icons. Therefore this is something left for the future efforts.
Anyway some progress report:
This is what i used for OpenSCAD WB. If anybody can find original OpenSCAD icon in SVG format with appropriate licence please attach it here and i will use it instead.
This ones are only in PNG format:
If somebody wants to improve them go ahead. If not i will probably "trace" them in Inkscape for now and that will be it for now.
Anyway some progress report:
This is what i used for OpenSCAD WB. If anybody can find original OpenSCAD icon in SVG format with appropriate licence please attach it here and i will use it instead.
This ones are only in PNG format:
If somebody wants to improve them go ahead. If not i will probably "trace" them in Inkscape for now and that will be it for now.
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Great to see you're working on it! I wish we had "thanks" button!
Can you generate flat view of cube in inkscape instead of tracing that yelowish thing? The function is called "Create 3D boxes" in inkscape
Can you generate flat view of cube in inkscape instead of tracing that yelowish thing? The function is called "Create 3D boxes" in inkscape
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Re: Low hanging fruits
maybe for Ship WB
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... togram.svg
Re: Low hanging fruits
Yes if there will be consensus i or somebody else can update individual workbench icon if desired. As now only replacing SVG file in master code is needed.
But the icon should be FreeCAD-ish and somebody should put at least some effort into making it instead of copy/paste from the internet.
But the icon should be FreeCAD-ish and somebody should put at least some effort into making it instead of copy/paste from the internet.
Re: Low hanging fruits
Last night, I gave a small talk on using FreeCAD at our local maker space. One of the audience pointed out that the capitalisation in the tooltips (specifically in Part Design) is inconsistent eg "Pad a.." vs "create a pocket...". I think the right way to go is capitalising the first letter, as most of the tooltips do. Perhaps finding/fixing these through FreeCAD would be a good starter project? -Ian-