Guillermo Espertino wrote:
In the current Tango set (it's in SVN now) the gradient, flood fill and connectors tools are in gray shades. The current set is coherent in that matter. I understand the point about color as a easy way to find them quicky. I still think that neutral shades are better for this, but maybe we should revise a color selection for them. My suggestion: avoid too saturated colors (they look cheesy, like a children toy) and choose the hue for each tool carefully (for instance, the red circle is the same icon that is universally used for "record" in multimedia applications, and that's what I see when I see the red circle in the older Tango set).
I don't think you can say vibrant colors are unprofessional. Have you ever looked at the ING website, for instance? There's no universal principal which dictates that - it's current popularity, and that only for a particular group of people.
If you decide to go with the Tango set, all of the toolbars must be Tango. It would probably be the worst option to mix icon styles.
I agree. Totally. Please check the latest version of the set. It's quite solid, imo.
I would argue that there's no reason the toolbars shouldn't be follow the system style while the drawing icons don't. Personally, I've never cared much for the system icons, I missed the Inkscape specific icons as soon as they disappeared. I like the Tango concept, but I'm not particularly fond of the default Tango system icons.
The problem is that we are creating different icons for tools that are shared with other applications like GIMP or Scribus, and it would be great to have common icons.
For this, I think the Tango icon set is great - a user can choose what he likes. In face, there could be a Tango-consistent set, a tangoified set of the official icons, and the official set as default, as well as any others (like a Mac or Windows set, for instance). However you like. I don't think there is any reason to change, and I think Bulia made the point well many ways in the previous discussion.
Pajarico wrote:
Why we don't try to see what current icons are worth for and improve from that? or improve the Preferences dialog to let the user choose easily between icons sets? As english say "don't throw the baby with the bathwater".
I think this is the most intelligent idea. It would be a pretty simple task, I would guess, for anyone wanting to do it. And would solve the problem - each user could make the switch once and not worry about it again.
JF