David Christian Berg wrote:
Alors: When I designed my icon theme, I noticed exactly the same problem as Andreas did. Designing icons to use the space of 16*16 in the menu will be clipped in the tool-option-bar. I don't agree that this means, that the buttons have to become larger. A svg will look rather crisp at any size and gnome is going svg, for sure. It just means, that the rendering of the icons is kinda screwed. The size on canvas should not matter at all! That's what svg is for. Find the object you want to draw, take it's width or height, whatever is bigger, and scale it proportionally to fit either the 16px of the Menu or the I think 20 px of the tool-option bar. That's how it should work. Right now I have to design a 24pt*24pt icon to fit the menubar. Since it actually is 16px*16px one might think that maybe scaling up a 16pt*16pt object would give very crisp results, but it doesn't. At the same time, the node-editing icons created in 20pt*20pt allow you to draw single pixels, which are 1pt*1pt. So as I said, all this is kinda screwed, but it doesn't count as a reason for increasing the button size.
David
So youre saying that there might be another reason for the clipping? The clipping is my main concern, and I thought that the size was the problem. If that is not, I apoligy for my request to make the buttons larger, especally if people find it a problem with normal-sized icons. - Andreas