On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:20:18 -0700 From: Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> To: david@...407... Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] Draw Icons
For all those of you who like a more Adobe-ish look for the drawing
tool
icons: Attached is a icon set that covers the drawing tools. The groups are named correctly, so you only need to delete the icons in the icons.svg and insert the attached file (you might have to ungroup the inserted file afterwards)
Shape-wise... they are waaay more slick in my opinion. The single color scheme is the least appealing part though.
These icons are way more like what I'm used to from Windows programs, which I dont mind but not for everyone. I like the icons themselves but not the colouring and I will attempt to explain why.
The thing about the colour scheme is that Adobe fully colours the icon of the active tool (on mouseover and if it is selected) and leaves the other icons in monochrome -- sort of like an equivalent to being greyed out -- so that the current tool is more distinct.
I dont think this notion of only colouring the active button actually works very well. It makes it harder to identify and select a different tool and I dont think there is any need to further distinguish the currently selected tool. I also dont think it is very aesthetically pleasing.
I suppose it might be interesting if you could have a theme that allowed such a combination of monochrome and full colour icons as described but it feels somehow incomplete to have the Adobe style monochrome icons without the corresponding full colour icons for the active item. But enough nitpicking from me, it is very interesting and very encouraging that people are already creating different icon themes for Inkscape.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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