"I would say that a good starting point for us is to gather more people that could potentially also want to help us redesign the icons"

I think is a great idea, something like two icons for each designer, for example. But for do that we need encourage the community. We need more interaction with our users.

About the image you share with me: I'm trying to figure out what are you trying to show me. And that make me think about we need a good tool to share designs ideas!

Please, explain me with words you idea.

I'll try to make a list of apps we can use for improve our design comunication.

El vie., 29 de jun. de 2018 a la(s) 17:10, Victor Westmann (victor.westmann@...400...) escribió:

Hi Mare,

amazing!

I would say that a good starting point for us is to gather more people that could potentially also want to help us redesign the icons (maybe announce it somewhere?) and measure the efforts of this work first.
I believe that the file that stores all (or at least most) of the icons that are used in the UI are stored in: %Inkscape_DIR%\inkscape\share\icons\icons.svg

Depending on the architecture of the Inkscape you installed (32 or 64 bit) it should be in one of those two places:

32 bit >> C:\Program Files\inkscape\share\icons\icons.svg
64 bit >> C:\Program Files (x86)\inkscape\share\icons\icons.svg

My initial idea is represented here https://ibb.co/gK6OxJ

I have some drawing abilities but I am not a designer.

Let me know what you think and how can I help!

--Victor Westmann

On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 12:22 PM, Mare Soria <mare.soria@...400...> wrote:
I'm in my friend!
Yeap, the new Gimp style is lovely.
I had started to change the icons a time ago, but there are many! I have personally choosen a minimalistic version and for do that helps me the free icons of Material Design by Google. https://material.io/tools/icons/?style=baseline

I just start work around the new interface structure. You can contact me at any moment!

El vie., 29 de jun. de 2018 a la(s) 15:59, Victor Westmann (victor.westmann@...400...) escribió:

Hi Mare Soria,

Welcome!

I feel exactly the same. This project is extremely useful and powerful but the UI makes it look old. I was wondering if we could join forces to propose a new design of the icons on the project and maybe even create a small new project instead.

I was just wondering if we could gather graphic designers, icon makers and people of the same nature to design a dark ui theme for inkscape on Windows and Mac OS platforms (because I Know this was already done in Linux). And we could redesign all of the icons. Just like Gimp did. The new UI gimp has is super pretty, modern, and doesn’t fatigue our eyes (because of the dark theme and colors). https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html

This would also address the new monitor resolutions that people will use inkscape (4K or really big resolutions).

What do you say?

--Victor Westmann