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Re: COIL iconTheme

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Such a subtile design update!
There is something to learn about subtle matter)

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- Now I switch between Dark and Light theme ...
- Wow, wow, take it easy, make this magic with no hidden sudden movements!

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Indeed looks like a very trivial change, but there is really a different feel to it..
Now I want a blueish dark theme like that for my desktop :)
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yorik wrote: Fri Apr 05, 2019 7:51 pm Indeed looks like a very trivial change, but there is really a different feel to it..
Now I want a blueish dark theme like that for my desktop :)
They already made dark darker and light lighter. Maybe they also read this thread?

Blue dark is darker, than monochrome one, so this change is a nice solution for drafting, because of higher contrast,
but not good, for example, for typhography fullcolor printing setup, as far as it influences colors.

I still in doubt about COIL possibilities, it is an extremely experimental concept,
but we will get a greater degree of freedom to explore after its release.
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I took a quick look and AutoCAD 2020 icons on Light background still don't look as good as they could? As for dark background. I guess they just used a rather low effort solution to address this, by changing a background color of the application itself with a stylesheet. ;)

In FOSS world, likely related to the fact FOSS supported multicolor from the get-go, icon designers are a bit more experienced:

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Re: COIL iconTheme

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Thank you very much 1D_Inc. I really appreciate your work with FreeCAD and Blender.

Still I don't understand how I can use this icon sets on FreeCAD for Windows? I downloaded the latest FreeCAD 0.18 from Github but I can't find any option to change the icons? I do need a special build or something similar?
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zohozer wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2019 2:26 pm Thank you very much 1D_Inc. I really appreciate your work with FreeCAD and Blender.

Still I don't understand how I can use this icon sets on FreeCAD for Windows? I downloaded the latest FreeCAD 0.18 from Github but I can't find any option to change the icons? I do need a special build or something similar?
It is just research at the moment. We didn't made icon set release yet, and there are some design problems.
They will be available as icon set for IconThemes addon.
https://github.com/triplus/IconThemes
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Thank you for reply. Good to know.
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We are fighting with Blender 2.8 hierarchy systems currently.
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/layers-maniphest/6578

Also, outlined Blender 2.8 icons adaptation
https://devtalk.blender.org/t/2-8-outli ... ation/6620
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Re: COIL iconTheme

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I think the design of your icon theme is just incredible. Very professional, clean, consistent. I like it.

But how is it supposed to be installed? I activated the IconThemes add-on in FreeCAD, and downloaded the Coil icon theme. And now?
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Re: COIL iconTheme

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Thank you.
I placed svg icons in C:\Users\1D_Inc\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD\Gui\Icons\COIL\
and it worked as COIL preset.

I also have X2, X3 and other folders there (it also took for me some time to figure out this scheme, but everything worked)
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