Re: Icons/Symbols/Shapes

[Tomas Pospisek <tpo2 sourcepole ch>]

Hi,

let me start by asserting, that IMHO top-posting makes it
harder to lead productive discussion. But no matter... 

On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:40:50 +0200, Killian De Volder wrote:
> I think there was a mixup.
> I meant the thinks like Cisco,UML,SyBase, Flowchart, ...
> Or did you indeed mean that ?

Yes, that's what I meant as well. From your next posting:

> BTW what is wrong with this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <shape xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg";;
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink";;>
>   <name>Test2</name>
>   <icon>Test2.png</icon>
>   <connections>
>     <point x="16" y="16" main="yes"/>
>   </connections>
>   <svg:svg>
>     <svg:rect style="fill:default;stroke:bg;stroke-width:0;" x="0" y="0"
width="2" height="2"/>
>     <svg:image x="0" y="0" width="32" height="32"
xlink:href="./BoxBase.svg"/>
>     <svg:image x="0" y="0" width="32" height="32"
xlink:href="./Server.svg"/>
>   </svg:svg>
> </shape>

What will be displayed in the shape sheet on the left in the Dia toolbox
is the

>   <icon>Test2.png</icon>

PNG Icon. If that icon would scale in a pretty way then a future Dia
version
could possibly let the user change the size of left "toolbar" ("push it
further aside") and thus let him have more space for diagram drawing.

Can you see the idea?
*t

> On 09-06-12 22:21, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 13:35:15 +0200, Killian De Volder wrote:
> > > A recurring issue for me is lack of icons.
> > > Search a bit on the Internet, but I'm unable to find a set that has a
> > > focus on providing IT related icons.
> > >
> > > I'm considering starting a project using simple icons, that are easily
> > > attributable by all.
> > > (Still working out a good looking, yet easy to make theme.)
> > >
> > > But before I start on this project, I first want to ask if anyone is
> > > anywhere of anything similar.
> > No, but I have a cheap idea to offer - what about making those icons
> > vector based as well (SVG or similar)? I consider the "single window"
> > layout of dia a major improvement - I'd love though to be able to
> > reduce the toolbox in size and have more space for the diagram. That's
> > impossible to do though unless you have, at least to some degree
> > scalable icons.