For the next
OpenCPN release I have made the User Interface easier to modify. You will be able to specify sizes, colors and icon bitmaps through a simple XML configuration file. All UI icons are also merged into a
single easily editable PNG file.
Using this new "Styling" tool I have done a couple of new styles for the toolbar. UI Style is easily changeable through a menu in the Toolbox, but one of the styles need to be default for new installations or upgrades. The question is which? This is very much a question of personal taste.
I am not sure what people fancy around here, so I thought it could be fun to see which would be the most popular to have as default in new installs. Let the flame wars begin
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The first, called "Traditional", is basically the 3.0 icons, but with some small modifications due to different underlying technology (notice the more noticeable toggled state):
The first new one, which I call "Journeyman Flat", is a more modern flat gray scale thing:
And the second one, called just "Journeyman", is similar but with a 3D raised effect: