Fit all and Fit selection use the same icon

[furgo16]

Fit all and Fit selection use the same icon

[Syres916]

You need to add the Boolean parameter Bitmaps/Theme/ThemeSearchPaths as per https://wiki.freecad.org/Fine-tuning

[furgo16]

Thanks! This works around the issue for those two icons, but I'll leave it open, as I feel it's still a bug (either in packaging or on choosing the icon, or on the system icon theme). In general, I'm happy with the system theme.

It seems that at least on Linux, there are at least 3 themes that are applied depending on the FreeCAD package installed and the value of that property.

Icons	Package	Bitmaps/Theme/ThemeSearchPaths	Theme	Notes
	freecad-daily	true	Yaru	Ubuntu's default theme
	freecad-daily	false	FreeCAD/Tango	This is the FreeCAD icon set, which uses Tango icons. Also what it looks like on default installation with the snap package
	AppImage weekly	true	?	Yet another theme. Unclear where it comes from
	AppImage weekly	false	FreeCAD/Tango	This is the FreeCAD icon set, which uses Tango icons.

[maxwxyz]

Is it something which could be solved in FreeCAD or is there no system icon to distinguish between them?

[furgo16]

I'm not sure how the translation FreeCAD icon => System icon works. FreeCAD does name them differently though (zoom-all and zoom-selection). I don't know whether some system icons can be overriden by FreeCAD icons when using the system theme.

FreeCAD/src/Gui/CommandView.cpp

Lines 1595 to 1605 in 47fd87a

	: Command("Std_ViewFitSelection")
	{
	sGroup = "Standard-View";
	sMenuText = QT_TR_NOOP("Fit selection");
	sToolTipText = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the selected content on the screen");
	sWhatsThis = "Std_ViewFitSelection";
	sStatusTip = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the selected content on the screen");
	sAccel = "V, S";
	sPixmap = "zoom-selection";
	eType = Alter3DView;
	}

FreeCAD/src/Gui/CommandView.cpp

Lines 1563 to 1574 in 47fd87a

	StdCmdViewFitAll::StdCmdViewFitAll()
	: Command("Std_ViewFitAll")
	{
	sGroup = "Standard-View";
	sMenuText = QT_TR_NOOP("Fit all");
	sToolTipText = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the whole content on the screen");
	sWhatsThis = "Std_ViewFitAll";
	sStatusTip = QT_TR_NOOP("Fits the whole content on the screen");
	sPixmap = "zoom-all";
	sAccel = "V, F";
	eType = Alter3DView;
	}

[krushia]

On my system they both look the same in the appimage. The icon they resolve to is zoom-fit-best from my scheme selected in KDE. There is an actual bug here, because "zoom-selection" and "zoom-all" aren't listed in the Freedesktop Icon Naming Specification. This means an application can't be sure they will exist. See also the related Icon There Spec

I have no idea how this works on Windows. The QIcon docs are a long read.

[krushia]

I spoke too soon. FreeCAD does have those named icons in the source,
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/main/src/Gui/Icons/zoom-fit-best.svg
https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob/main/src/Gui/Icons/zoom-all.svg
... but apparently they don't get used if Bitmaps/Theme/ThemeSearchPaths is true? In my case there is no setting defined.

[furgo16]

... but apparently they don't get used if Bitmaps/Theme/ThemeSearchPaths is true? In my case there is no setting defined.

That was the same behavior on my system. Before I created the property, the two icons distributed with FreeCAD were not used, so I assume if Bitmaps/Theme/ThemeSearchPath is not defined, it defaults to 'true' => use system theme icons. As per the table.

If I understand it correctly,

1. from https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qicon.html#fromTheme, and at least on Linux: that method is used to fetch the system icon given a descriptive string (e.g. zoom-all).

FreeCAD/src/Gui/Command.cpp

Lines 981 to 989 in 82101ac

	Action * Command::createAction()
	{
	Action *pcAction;
	pcAction = new Action(this,getMainWindow());
	applyCommandData(this->className(), pcAction);
	if (sPixmap)
	pcAction->setIcon(Gui::BitmapFactory().iconFromTheme(sPixmap));
	return pcAction;
	}

Just as an example, there are other places where that method is called

Then also from the docs:

If an icon can't be found in the current theme, then it will be searched in fallbackSearchPaths() as an unthemed icon.

2. The Icon Naming spec defines zoom-fit-best, zoom-in, zoom-original and zoom-out. Neither of those map to the zoom-all or zoom-selection strings defined in the FreeCAD code to load those icons.

3. Despite not being a match, zoom-fit-best is the system theme icon returned when calling iconFromTheme() for either zoom-original or zoom-out.

This would mean that his bug is about finding out why 3) is happening.