What's your idea about a new skin

[Seyed Keyarash Ghiasi]

Dear all devs, 

After a couple of years working with Altium Designer, I decided to switch to KiCad, however, it took me a while to get used to the transition. 

I was wondering what's your idea of developing a new skin similar to Altium, so it can ease transitions from both sides? 

[Jon Evans]

KiCad supports custom color themes.  There is an (unofficial) repository containing a number of options here: https://github.com/pointhi/kicad-color-schemes

I'm sure an Altium-inspired theme would be accepted here.

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[Seyed Keyarash Ghiasi]

Thanks a lot!

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2022-09-14 11:35, Seyed Keyarash Ghiasi wrote:
> After a couple of years working with Altium Designer, I decided to switch to
> KiCad, however, it took me a while to get used to the transition.
> I was wondering what's your idea of developing a new skin similar to Altium,

I don't know how much of a change it would be to have migrated from Altium
to KiCad. The transition from KiCad v5 to v6 required relearning how to do
some things. I would like the ability to change the icons used by the
program as I am not a fan of the ones we have now. They seem a bit flat and
lacking in colour. Perhaps it might be possible in v7. We can only hope.

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[Mark Roszko]

You can in fact replace the icons. We just don't support it in the UI.

You just need to replace images.tar.gz, for example on Windows that's located in C:\Program Files\KiCad\<version>\share\kicad\resources

[Kevin Cozens]

On 2022-09-14 23:03, Mark Roszko wrote:
> You can in fact replace the icons. We just don't support it in the UI.
>
> You just need to replace images.tar.gz, for example on Windows that's
> located in C:\Program Files\KiCad\<version>\share\kicad\resources

The first time I tried to use the icons from v5 nothing changed in v6. I
suspected it was due to the icons being compiled in to the program. I'll
give it another try some day. Thanks.