Thread: [SailfishOS] Pure Maps
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2018-09-03 , 19:07
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#122
Originally Posted by nodevel View Post
@rinigus Incredible job with the app, kudos.

I would have just one suggestion - would you consider leaving some fixed, large enough window for submissions? Designing an icon that would adhere to the name of the app in its purity is not an overnight thing and there are many talented people in this forum. I wanted to contribute myself to the app icon selection, but did not make it to be the first one to submit and it was too late by then.

It would also make sense to handle contributions through pull requests - SVGs are well versionable and people could build upon each other's designs.
Thank you for wanting to help. At that time of fork, it all came rather unexpectedly and, in the end, it comes to availability of talented people wishing to contribute. @Fellfrosch did an excellent job and I am happy that we could roll out the fork that fast and focus on making it better.

I agree, SVGs with Github PRs should help us nicely to move forward.

As for timing, I don't mind having longer timeframes with icons. Just let's be careful with wasting valuable time of all those who can make this OS better. When multiple people work on parallel designs, we have some work wasted, don't we? If you and @Fellfrosch would like it, we can look at the possible designs in 2 weeks. Would that be OK?

Originally Posted by Fellfrosch View Post
I definitely would stay with Osmo's icons, they are indeed quite nice. Simpelst way would be to just switch the colour (maybe a darker blue or a nice red). Red would also work for night mode. Or we work with outlined Icons that would also work for different backgrounds. What are your preferences? Shall I just upload something on github?
I haven't had any issues with looking on normal pointer in the absence of navigation route. So, it will depend on whether we keep the same normal positioning icon or not.

As for preferences, I don't have any at this moment, sorry.

In general, artistic touch is probably needed in many places. We can now style navigation route color, POIs, position icons for each map (Mapbox Street, OSM Scout Car, ...) separately. So, we don't actually have to have icons working for many styles. But then we would probably need sed script to swap the colors on icons when generating them.
 

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