Hello everyone,
I am just reviving an old discussion on this mailing list about changing the current icon theme to the benefit of a Tangoified one. For those not having it in your mailbox anymore here is the archive: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/21956/focus=22004 and the icons in question: http://gnomelook.org/content/show.php/Tangofied+inkscape+icons+set?content=4...
While I agree that some of those may need more work (they often appear more blurry than current ones and hence can be a bit visually confusing) I think that overall they look better than the current set.
I also agree with bulia [see previous discussion] that change for the sake of change is not the way to go. But in the end, I don't think it really is a matter of how the icons look but more a question of how Inkscape looks compared to other applications. All of Gnome switched to Tango recently, Gimp 2.4 uses Tango-style icons (and they sure look marvelous), Scribus also and many more projects follow (OpenOffice, etc.) and having the same visual conventions helps. In addition these Tango style icons look good on Windows XP and OS X which is important for a cross platform app. I have been using them instead of the default for a little while on my OS X box and, even if they are not photorealistic as most OS X icons are, they really fit in quite well.
So I was wondering: is anyone willing to work a bit more on these icons before releasing 0.46, so that they look as gorgeous as Gimp's ones by then? If they do look gorgeous, what would be your position about integrating them? If we can't find a consensus, how would you feel about a per platform decision? Indeed, if the un-sharpness is fixed for some of these, I would really like to use them on OS X at least, since they integrate better with the rest and they would be welcome with the new GTK theme we are using on this platform. Furthermore, the problem may also occur on Windows since the XP look and the Vista look are quite different.
So, what do you think? who volunteers (Andreas, wedderburn)?
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/