On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:10 AM, Guillermo Espertino <gespertino@...400...> wrote:
Do we really need to have white lines in Pen/Pencil, Calligraphic, and Spiral? Is it against some guidelines to draw crisp, visible black lines, which would also match the default style of these tools? (they draw black lines, not white!)
I also made the lines dark. The problem with this (or just black) is how the theme works in dark GTK themes. The black or dark lines disappear.
Then why not make it black middle, white outline? That would be much crisper than those thick gray spaghetti :)
With this comparison, I cannot help noticing that it is definitely the Tango icons that look more childish, naive, clumsy - not our current set.
Both look childish. That's because of the colors. Now both look like a plastic children toy :)
But the old set copes much better with color thanks to its strong, graphic black outline. It's the outline that holds them together graphically, color is just a decoration. With the anemic outline-less Tango ones, color indeed mostly fails. There's nothing to hang that color on, basically :)