On 10/29/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On 10/24/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
Add, as Elisa pointed out to me, there is a wiki page started about this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TangoifiedIcons
I'm sorry to spoil the party but I really, really don't like the "proposed icon" column for tools. They:
- are too pale and too different in blackness/visual clout - some are
barely visible on a LCD (star), some are much more visible, but overall they are much paler and drabber than our current set
- lack meaningful parallelism: it is not coincidental that pen,
pencil, and calligraphic pen in our current set are all drawn at the same slant; in tango the pen is way too different in all aspects, breaking the consistency of drawing tools
- lack coordination with our mouse cursors: in our current set, node
tool uses this thin triangular black pointer depicted on its icon, and paintbucket cursor is also similar to the icon - this is not the case with proposed icons
- lack a lot of meaningful details that help Inkscape user understand
the purpose and operation of the tool: cursor in Text, handles and gradient line in Gradient, both polygon and star in Star tool to suggest it can create both, mnemonic colors of shape tools that correspond to their default colors in newly installed Inkscape.
I think that these problems outweigh the advantages if any, and I just don't see a convincing reason for the change.
While a few of the Icons currently have issues that can probably be resolved, I feel that making this change will help Users of GIMP, Scribus, and Inkscape have a more consistent and almost Suite-ish feeling. Yes I know more integration than that is really need but it a nice (first,second??) step. Since Tango is open, well you know the rest. Anyway about the cursors they could be changed also to match. I forget why we had to back out the color cursor patch a few releases ago, wonder if there has been any recent to resolve it?
I think most of your issues are resolvable.
Joshua L. Blocher verbalshadow
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