On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Michael Grosberg wrote:
Inkscape has gained some pretty impressive features lately, but complexity has taken a toll on the UI. It now contains many icons, toolbars, and dialogs, and these UI elements take a lot of space, even on a large monitor. he problem is even more pronounced on an Ubuntu desktop where the GTK theme forces Inkscape to render all toolbars using extra large icons, making it too large for many resolutions. The dialogs are also too large, with oversized controls and a lot of spacing, and you can barely fit a couple of them on each side when they are docked.
Another thing is that width of some dialogs in Inkscape depends on length of tabs captions (e.g. Document Properties). In GIMP this is solved by using icons in captions (in fact they provide a switcher between icon, icon + text and just text).
Alexandre