Hello,
Daniel Pope píše v St 17. 01. 2007 v 08:39 +0000:
Josef 'cornelius' Vybíral wrote:
Hi fellow developers, there is one "patch" in the tracker[1] I would like to know if it can be included in upcoming 0.45 version. It is tangoified icon by Andreas Nilsson for Inkscape, based on a cleaned version of the official logo.
The reworked icon looks really nice imho and it would be good to have it in. It can make Inkscape fit the currently redrawn gnome-icon-theme (and not only this one, but it fits well among other icons on other desktops like MS Windows or MacOS X). Besides the good look, I see another advantage also that it can be more easily recognisable on light as well as on dark backgrounds then the actual one.
So, what do you think?
There was a different Tangoified version of the Inkscape icon submitted to the Tango mailing list yesterday.
I am aware of that icon. The bad about that icon is that its quality cannot be compared to the one in the tracker which looks imho much better.
It didn't include the brush, which is not part of our branding and should not be part of our package.
I think this is not a problem. We have sources for the icon included in the package so we can easily remove the brush and re-render it. If required we can ask the author of the icon if he approves that change.
However, Tango can provide a Tango-flavour icon for Inkscape anyway so we don't need to include it ourselves. Doing so would make it look out-of-place on KDE, Mac or Windows, none of which support freedesktop.org icon themes and whose default styles are much closer to our current icon.
On the contrary, Tango project and tango style guidelines are here to make different desktops look unified and help icons fit default desktop icon themes well. (btw iirc KDE is going to follow the tango icon naming specs and follows also other standards by freedesktop.org).
We could improve the appearance of the current Inkscape icon on dark backgrounds with a bit of soft white glow.
The white glow is not imo the way to go here. It does not make enough contrast like the white inner stroke does. Also the shape is not well defined by this way. Feel free to try it, it looks odd on any desktop you mention.
Sincerely Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius