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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "William Bader" <williambader@hotmail.com><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Friday, March 17, 2017 11:42 PM<br />
<b>To</b>: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus@lists.scribus.net><br />
<b>Subject</b>: Re: [scribus] Icons</span>
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<div>>If a large T means a text frame then a large G could mean a graphic frame and a large S followed by a tiny e could mean a text frame with easy access to the Style Editor<br />
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The problem with letters is that they are language specific.<br />
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Many Linux applications use svg for icons to avoid issues with scaling bitmapped images. For example, try running<br />
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find /usr -name '*svg' | less<br />
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Scribus already has a few svgs in resources/iconsets/1_5_0/other/ and scribus/plugins/picbrowser/icons/<br />
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I think that inkscape https://inkscape.org/ is a popular open source tool for making svgs, but it takes time to learn. https://inkscape.org/en/learn/<br />
I think that Android switched from color icons to black and white icons because the icon bar background is controllable by themes, and color icons could be hard to see on color backgrounds. Desktop applications like Scribus control the background of the icon bar and don't have that problem.<br />
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William</div>
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I have found the answer to one of my complaints. But the cure may be worse than the illness. If i click on the rectangle in the upper right hand corner the entire scribus image expands and the icon bar now shows the missing icon for the Story Editor.</div>
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<div>Moving this icon to the left part of the icon bar would also eliminate the need for this action on the user's part.. I am not so concerned about my usage as I am about those who read my book.</div>
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<div>I will look into the resources you cite for svg icons. I am familiar with Inkscape and would use it for icon design if/when I design my version of the icon bar. One of the objects that Inkscape can create is a push button with a value attached. Would that work? Time will tell. :<)</div>
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<div>Best<br />
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