Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote:
graffoo wrote:
I thought that. But the problem is as I stated, the icons are not default windows on a windows machine. they are default gnome, which is on a win desktop a bit confusing. just look at the attached file. I think a perfect thing would be that if an icon is specified in icons.svg file, inkscape will use that icon, and if it isn't specified then use the default wimp theme icon. what about that? The other thing is, many
I don't think is good: it would break theming on Linux or would require 2 versions of icons.svg: one for Linux and another for Windows. Or how about 4 versions? For GNOME, KDE, Windows and OSX. IMO, the best thing is to make the icons in Wimp really fit the Windows desktop, this way not only Inkscape get better on Windows, but other applications using Wimp like Gimp or Gaim.
Yeah I know it would break the theming in Linux. That's why I proposed a separate version of icons.svg for windows. I know this isn't a clear solving of this problem but at least something... I agree with you that Wimp icons should be taken from windows libraries, it's the best way to have a consistent workspace across whole system. But I think it wouldn't be such a problem to implement the behaviour of inkscape to use icons from icons.svg when they are specified and when they are not, use system wide icons. Don't you think?
apps in windows have their custom icons, even the default ones. And when Inkscape will use the tango theme, why not use the tango icons also for the default ones. I think its less confusing when one app has one icon theme than other rather than one app has two icon themes ;) and to solve the problem with unification across platforms, simply ship the win version of inkscape with the modified icons.svg.
If I use Bluecurve or Echo as my theme of choice, why I would want Tango icons for file and clipboard operations?
I think I wrote that wrong ;) I alluded on Inkscape that on windows it is using right out-of-the-box two icon themes. That gnome default for main icons and other from icons.svg for tools icons and stuff like that. This is from a user point of view a bit confusing and looks ugly. Thats all...