Icons: dependency on cervisia/kdesdk

[mbiebl]

kdesvn uses icons from cervisia (kdesdk module). So if you don't have kdesdk installed you have some ugly white spaces instead of the icons. One solution for package maintainers could be to add a dependency to cervisia, which is a rather ugly hack imho. The other solution would be to copy all needed icons from cervisia and name them differently to avoid name clashes (vcs_commit.png->svn_commit.png). I think it's best to only rely on icons that are delivered with kdebase.

[alwin]

yes, right. As you see I try to replace all that icons with own ones... but have no ideas for commit/update...

[mbiebl]

You could ask (KDE) artists on http://kde-artists.org/main/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,48/. Maybe they are willing to produce some high quality icons for the project. A nice new logo would be cool too. Something more distinct, more visual, without letters.

[alwin]

created now own icons (from kde-arts comes nothing) which are mostly usable I hope. comments welcome

[mbiebl]

The new icons are really an improvement. Three comments: 1.) The new logo is hardly readable/distinguishable at smaller sizes (<32x32). Especially the text "KDESVN" at the bottom. 2.) The update, commit, check for update icons don't scale very well. It's hard to distinguish them at smaller sizes (<22x22) because the icons have too many details. 3.) The overlay icon for check for updates has a blue color tone. My folder icons have a blue color tone too so it makes it hard to distinguish them. Green or maybe yellow would be better.

[alwin]

the logo I'll make a little bit more cleaner next time. For the inline icons I have no ideas how to handle it with small sizes. I think this would require a complete second iconset which will cost a lot of time.

[alwin]

this moment I have not time to solve it (and no ideas) - when I find a set or have an idea I'll integrate it but the origin failure is fixed.

[olenz@…]

I must admit that I think the toolbar icons in cervisia are much clearer to me, than are the kdesvn icons. When using the icons in the default size (22x22 in my case), I was not able to distinguish between the commit, update and update status icons, up to the point that I changed the icons individually to the cervisia icons.

Best regards Olaf

[alwin]

May I design sometimes newer one. Or I get a feedback somewhere. but meanwhile kdesvn has it own icons which is better than using the (nice) one from cervisia.