enigma-dev / calico-icon

A vector icon set meant to look good at small resolutions.

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calico-icon's Issues

Export has incorrect alignment

Just looking at the release after @rpjohnst pointed out to me that LGM had some misaligned icons. I thought at first it may have been my fault using Inkscape to export but it appears it's Calico's actual export script that must be doing it. You can see in the screenshot several of the icons are not centered properly.

Exporting as SVGs

It would be nice to have the icons also available as separate SVGs so they could be used as vector icons.

This is possible with the Inkscape command line:

Owner@Bedroom-Desktop MINGW64 ~/Desktop/projects/Calico-Icon (master)
$ inkscape "icons.svg" --export-id="Icon_Sprite" --export-id-only --export-plain-svg="sprite.svg"

However, it was spitting out a 16x16 blank canvas before I realized the missing object/group was all the way at the top, outside of the canvas. Upon further inspection it appeared that the y-value in the exported SVG was -275. Looking around a bit, I discovered this is a bug reported 3 years ago:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1306662

The patch was just recently made to 0.93, which hasn't been released yet. I tried to download 0.92+devel to do this, but it failed me:

** (inkscape.exe:6300): CRITICAL **: void SPObject::requestModified(unsigned int): assertion 'this->document != NULL' failed

** (inkscape.exe:6300): CRITICAL **: void SPObject::requestModified(unsigned int): assertion 'this->document != NULL' failed

** (inkscape.exe:6300): CRITICAL **: void SPObject::requestModified(unsigned int): assertion 'this->document != NULL' failed

** (inkscape.exe:6300): CRITICAL **: void SPObject::requestModified(unsigned int): assertion 'this->document != NULL' failed

** (inkscape.exe:6300): CRITICAL **: void SPObject::requestModified(unsigned int): assertion 'this->document != NULL' failed

Would like to hear other ideas how to splice the SVGs out, because it appears Inkscape just sucks.

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Status Bar Icons

Calico needs some icons for representing things like mouse location, dimension, zoom for on status bars like Visual Studio, Paint, PDN, and GIMP. I specifically need these in LGM to make the status bars look more modern and visually aesthetic.

Icons needed for the status bars are as follows:

• Mouse Top/Left Location
• Dimension (width x height)
• Zoom, ie a black and white magnifying glass or some variation of the existing ones. Or maybe even an icon of a spring or something else that conveys stretching.
• Scale (not the same as dimension, should also convey stretching, ie the room editor status bar would display the rooms dimensions possibly and also the current floating point scale of the selected instance's sprite)
• Memory, ie the number kb's bytes etc for a sound or image resource on the background/sprite/sound editor status bars.

Feature request : new icons

I added the following icons : add-on-top.png, add-multiple.png, select-object.png, select-region.png and snap-to-grid.png.
The icons add-on-top.png and snap-to-grid.png need to be vectorized in order to make them less aliased.
We need also a contrast icon pack for all new icons for the dark theme.

"Icon_Add" should be its own icon

For the same reasons delete is also its own icon, the little plus sign on new file and such should actually be its own "Icon_Add".

It took me a little extra work to get this for ActionMaker's "Insert New Action" button:

I'd send the PR but I am not exactly sure how you organize the gradients and everything such that changing the color of the add icon would also change it for new file, new directory, etc.

Wish List

• Image Editing, different brushes, fade effects, and paint tools
• Playback, different color variants for playback buttons such as Stop/Pause/Resume
• Text Editing, for a rich text editor that has bullet/number buttons, sub/super script, strike through, highlight, among other options
• File, little white file icons that have the source code name on them that you see in an ide for a bunch of formats, PDF, CPP, H, etc.
• Resources, an icon that could be used for things like Game Info settings or mask settings for the background editor, that is different than the global game settings icon, to distinguish the difference
• Compiling, more breakpoint icons and symbols, also Warning/Error/Issue. I don't consider the existing warning icons in Calico to be complete because while they are very nice, not every icon in an output log should be a triangle. Information/Issue/Notice messages are iconified as circles. Warnings are typically isosceles in nature and errors are usually round or hexagonal.
• Layout icons, since new IDE's will have ability to drag things around, will have "Reset Layout" and other options, so it's helpful to have a bunch of icons indicating, for instance, something docked on the side of a form. While some of these icons have been added they should also be expanded further.
• controller/joystick/events
• Git/SVN showing files with unstaged changes, etc. etc.
• Path editor, shift, reverse, mirror points, etc.
• Room editor grids
• Resource package icon

RGM Table Models Improvised Icons

Should also include #8 here but these are the icons I just improvised for the path editor and stuff. They are based on ones already in Calico obviously.

The first group here is for the column headers on the path editor's points list. We need an icon representing coordinate components.

X	Y	Z	Motion/Speed

The second group here relates to the layers and the room editing. Most obviously I need an eyeball icon for toggling layer visibility. I don't know if we have a lock icon already or not, I don't know if LGM even ever supported locking. But we also probably need a few other layer icons for the toolbar and stuff.

I don't know how well the current drawing icons will manage, but we may also want a few special icons for painting tiles and instances. Region selection is also something we might already have.

Text Formatting Icons

Although LGM never got to it, and we're not sure RGM is keeping the information resource, Calico never did include more than bare minimum text formatting icons. Rather than reusing the font resource icon, it would have been nice to have a special font icon plus a separate one for the font color. There also isn't any bulleted/numbered list icon a la Microsoft WordPad or Google Docs.