On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
Currently all icons from the program (non gtk-stock) come from share/icons/*.xpm. Are you asking me to implement a system so that based on the theme of the windowmanager, would change Inkscape accordingly and if there is no folder for themes, then use the default icons?
Does anyone have thoughts on this as well? It seems that this would be a lot of extra work and that the app would benefit from having a unified set of icons that *don't* changed just because of a system's theme. Also, I don't know if this is a very high priority compared with other features. My gut feeling is to not implement this, but if you would like to, then go right ahead.
I agree with your assessment - theming would require additional design thought before it could be implemented, so is best left independent of this refactoring. Once you're done, the work of changing to use themes for icons would be a straightforward project for someone interesting in adding that capability.
(I would assume we could handle themes in an analogous manner to clipart packages or extensions, so maybe the right time to look at it would be after one of those are implemented.)
Bryce