[Qlandkartegt-users] Waypoint Icons - new concept

Hi,

triggered by a discussion with geocachers I changed the internal concept
for waypoint icons. From the user's point of view there will be no
difference visible. But the new system offers a lot more freedom.

In general a waypoint icon is identified by it's name. The name can be
everything. However if you want different software to cooperate one has
to agree on certain names. In the real world Garmin defines the names
and everyone has to cooperate.

QLandkarte GT has a few icons built in. For all other, unknown icons it
uses a default icon. Most users will use the custom icons, that can be
defined freely. Of course Garmin defines a lot more icons. The reasons
why QLGT does not offer these are:

* I am too lazy to do the hideous work adding all icons
* I lack nice icons with an acceptable license.

There are many icons in the source tree from the GPSMan project. And the
author allowed their usage. (Thanks :)). But many of these icons do not
really look like the ones on the devices. And ripping the icons from the
devices to be spread by QLGT is a no go.

Ok, that is the situation. Now the big change. After starting the new
version in SVN the first time a new folder will be created

~/.config/QLandkarteGT/WaypointIcons/

If you place a bitmap in this path, the icon will be listed in QLGT with
the name of the file. E.g: "Parking.png" will be listed as "Parking" and
"Small City.png" as "Small City". By that you can add your favorite icon
set to QLGT. And if you stick to Garmin's name  	dictation you will even
get the right icon on the device. In CGarminDevice.cpp there is a list
of known icon names.

A second change is in the DBus API. I added a function to send an icon
to QLGT. The icon will be stored in the path and added to the list.
Existing icons will be replaced (!). What's the use of that? Well, the
idea is to allow other programs to synchronize their icons with QLGT.
For example OpenCacheManager can configure QLGT to use exactly the same
icons for the different cache types. Of course the user can configure
QLGT manually right now, but adding a bit of automation might help. And
if OCM decides to use other icons it can synchronize with QLGT without
bothering the user. I am not sure if that is a good concept, but let's see.


Oliver