Tuesday, June 5, 2012

QComicBook UI cleanup, quest for icons

As a part of the preparations for QComicBook 1.0.0 (yeah, it should eventually come - it's been 7 years already!) I've started working on UI cleanup. The goal is to make it simple and ditch some useless actions (is anyone using Page top/Page bottom or '5 pages forward'??); target #1 is to clean up the toolbar. Another goal is to make QComicBook UI look like the rest of the desktop, i.e. use system theme icons.
Much to my delight I discovered that Qt supports standard desktop icons (be it GNOME, KDE, XFCE...) from version 4.6! This works well and I was able to quickly test it by replacing some icons with themed icons using Qt Designer. Unsurprisingly there are some icons that just don't exist in standard themes. For most menu actions it's OK to just get rid of them, but toolbar actions must have icons... That means 'Two pages mode', 'Manga mode' and 'Fit to width', 'Fit to height' and alike as a minimum (see first screenshot). Unfortunately existing QComicBook icons stand out too much from pretty much any desktop theme and I need to find or create replacements for them. Suggestions, ideas or contributions anyone?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello.
I`m a user using your qcomicbook.
Would you build to the qcomicbook with windows version?
And, I want shortcut change.
Every week, I use your program.

"thank you","thank you"

Pawel Stolowski said...

I'm not planning a port of QComicBook for Windows at the moment, it's more complicated than just rebuilding and needs some more work, and my capacity is limited. I'm however more than happy to accept any patches that enable Windows port.