Jon Phillips wrote:
Heya dudes and dudettes,
It has been bothering me that there aren't icons for some menu items. I went ahead and took a stab at finishing the rest of the icons in the main menus. Please critique my new ones with your own changes...I just wanted to get the ball rolling...
Hm, even more icons into those menus, having a icon for every item in a menu makes them quite cluttered and it is sometimes harder to spot the right item. Some time ago I asked the clever dude Matthew Paul Thomas for advice on icons in menus, and he gave me the following answer: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/mpt-iconsinmenus.txt I'm not saying this is the way to go, but mpt is quite a smart guy and it's worth a thought.
I added: Document Metadata, Input Devices, Select All in All Layers, Invert Selection, Deselect, Messages, Scripts, Icon Preview, Layers..., the rest of the text icons (not the best ones), About Memory...
I hope you all like...Also, to all you artists and developers, adding icons is easy!
1.) open up icons.svg from the main inkscape trunk in PATH_TO_INKSCAPE/share/icons/icons.svg
2.) group your icon together and give it a good name in the object properties dialog
3.) add or edit the proper name in the PATH_TO_INKSCAPE/src/verbs.cpp
4.) make && su -c 'make install'
Check and repeat 1-4 until you are happy!
Some time ago Jon Cruz mentioned following the tango-art-libre naming scheme [1] and and I'm not sure if that also would involve making the theming system more similar to the system used by kde, gnome and xfce, ie. using individual files in a directory structure and in different sizes for menus and toolbars. Any update on this?
1. http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet
- Andreas