A few weeks ago, right before the holidays, some chatter in the VDG channel happened where the desire to change our icons to a 24x24px size came up. Most modern interfaces use this icon size as a b…
That doesn’t sound right, how can they have other designers contribute then? Maybe that’s just a placeholder project for now?
Speaking of the plugin, I don’t know how hard it really is to develop one and what KDE needs, I can only guess they went with Figma because the available designers are most familiar with it rather than Inkscape, though I also noticed from that readme that this plugin should support Penpot as well, so they’re probably leaving it up as future possibility to shift to that
That doesn’t sound right, how can they have other designers contribute then? Maybe that’s just a placeholder project for now?
🤷 I merely searched for Jetpack on KDE Invent.
I can only guess they went with Figma because the available designers are most familiar with it rather than Inkscape
Building a complete Plasma desktop with icons and such should not depend on any proprietary software for reasons KDE’s own Vision document states. If people want to make a 3rd party icon set hosted on GitHub or wherever, fine, but IMO the building blocks of “core” KDE software should be 100% FOSS.
One would think if they are capable to write a special Figma plugin, they’d be also capable to write an Inkscape plugin.
Btw, the Figma plugin seems to be closed source as well. I only found https://invent.kde.org/mdelafuente/icon-jetpack and with the exception of the readme file, it’s completely empty.
That doesn’t sound right, how can they have other designers contribute then? Maybe that’s just a placeholder project for now?
Speaking of the plugin, I don’t know how hard it really is to develop one and what KDE needs, I can only guess they went with Figma because the available designers are most familiar with it rather than Inkscape, though I also noticed from that readme that this plugin should support Penpot as well, so they’re probably leaving it up as future possibility to shift to that
🤷 I merely searched for Jetpack on KDE Invent.
Building a complete Plasma desktop with icons and such should not depend on any proprietary software for reasons KDE’s own Vision document states. If people want to make a 3rd party icon set hosted on GitHub or wherever, fine, but IMO the building blocks of “core” KDE software should be 100% FOSS.