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[Colour coding user interface]

Colour coding user interface
I've posted this here as I can't include images in the post on the help desk (only attach them), and the interface is developing release by release.
Anyway, can you please standardise what colours mean in the interface? We have tan bar, and red or blue text to indicate current option, and red or blue text to indicate.. nothing as far as I can see.

tan bar  (current selected option):

blue text  (current selected option):
 
red text  (current selected option):

red text (just highlighting):

blue text (just highlighting):

For me, UI consistency is vital.

Theme switcher - directly open a settings is not exactly what I think it is wanted. I'll anyway do some more UI improvements here, so it will evolve over time.

It would be good to pop up a mapstyle switcher as with your native Locus mapstyle system (like I had in Elevate 3.0.1 and John has in his themes), so that at least cycling/hiking/city can be chosen.

Working on elements used elsewhere in Locus, how about something like this, which pops up a maps style switcher with further settings via an icon on the right:

Clicking on the "settings" icon gives (as before) the details screen.

Sorry I didn't mention that issue with blue labels is fixed and release of new version is planned today.

Not fixed for me with internal theme on today's new release

Quite agree. Can't change the style of a theme that is currently in use now.

Lost? "Change theme" was moved from "Quick settings" to full featured function that may be placed directly to "Functions (top/right) panel".

It may be somewhere but I have lost it! Where do I look now?

We seem to have lost Change Theme from the functions that can be added to the side or top panel or to Quick Settings

Those are trees. You can always try different themes.

Good progress! It's Tobias' icon really. In my version, I deleted the cloned part and duplicated the left hand side instead to get it to work with Locus. However Tobias added a transparent white outline which I hadn't previously but now have (see attached).

Train station and tram stop still have an incorrect black outline and fountain is also still wrong. The problem with fountain is that the right hand side of the drawing is a clone of the left hand side. I don't know if clones are allowed in simple svg.

The duality of general POI and Locus POI is referred to here http://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:points:about. ... The feature handling Locus map POI (Menu > More > Point of interest) is still named "Beta" as you can see.

So some of the feedback on the beta is that the naming is confusing. The manual has names (Locus Maps POIs and Independent POIs) which aren't used in the app, which doesn't help matters much.

Voluntary UK (and Velocity) is now available for direct download and installation from within Locus.
See Menu > Store > By usage > Graphic > Themes - Vector maps >

Since the latest upgrade my 4×1 widget has started locking up randomly. The pause button goes amber, just as when initialising on start up, and no button works. I can access Locus from the apps drawer or from a shortcut, just not the widget. This may be solely a phone issue though, as I have been having random problems with my moto g of late.
Edit: I checked carefully after my latest lock-up of the widget and everything else on phone is working.

Looking at this carefully, funicular, cable car, gondola, fountain, nuclear power, and corners of peak and peak cross still need attention, but otherwise great. Attraction, train station, tram stop should not have a black outline, helipad is not quite right.
;-)

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When I open Tobias's s_trainstation_lz.svg (from post above) in Inkscape and click on the object, the status bar says "Path 2 nodes in root", but when I use the node tool, there are four nodes. Is that not odd?
After using Simplify, the object tool reads "Path 4 nodes in root". The saved file renders fine in Locus.
I agree however with Tobias that "Simplify" does not solve all the problems with the Locus renderer, even using SVGClean as well.
I notice though that some of Tobias's files won't load into Inkscape (s_kindergarten.svg for example).

I'll be more than happy if that has solved it but I'm somewhat sceptical. As far as I could see, it was the complexity of symbols that caused them to fail in Locus, as in my example above.