On 10/24/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
Add, as Elisa pointed out to me, there is a wiki page started about this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TangoifiedIcons
I'm sorry to spoil the party but I really, really don't like the "proposed icon" column for tools. They:
- are too pale and too different in blackness/visual clout - some are barely visible on a LCD (star), some are much more visible, but overall they are much paler and drabber than our current set
- lack meaningful parallelism: it is not coincidental that pen, pencil, and calligraphic pen in our current set are all drawn at the same slant; in tango the pen is way too different in all aspects, breaking the consistency of drawing tools
- lack coordination with our mouse cursors: in our current set, node tool uses this thin triangular black pointer depicted on its icon, and paintbucket cursor is also similar to the icon - this is not the case with proposed icons
- lack a lot of meaningful details that help Inkscape user understand the purpose and operation of the tool: cursor in Text, handles and gradient line in Gradient, both polygon and star in Star tool to suggest it can create both, mnemonic colors of shape tools that correspond to their default colors in newly installed Inkscape.
I think that these problems outweigh the advantages if any, and I just don't see a convincing reason for the change.