- I much prefer the Standard icon set. I find it more distinct and
easier to distinguish at a glance because of this. This just means it is less work for my brain and eyes to use it.
I agree. I always found the tools quickly with current icons.
To Joel Holdsworth: Well, that's the theory. They're basically saying "your app won't look out of place with Tango icons", but I have to add "yeah, sure,... unless the user ONLY uses that one app with tango icons and no other". In that case his app will be surrounded by OS default icons, and other apps icons which will be different. To me that point is the theory not the practice... we're back to start: we don't know the profile of the average Inkscape user and we don't know if he uses other tangoified apps or not. If the point is about ISVs wanting consistency between OS, that can be achieved with any iconset: just use them in every platform!!
To Guillermo Espertino You're very unfair in your appreciations.First is not what I think, rather what it really is. You say that inkscape is not an isolated app, well I didn't say it was or it wasn't because -again- no one knows who's the average user of Inkscape. Assuming that a majority is using other FOSS apps suchs as Scribus or Gimp is a pretty wild guess. Keep in mind also that there are other workflows combined with Adobe CS products (my case and i work happily with them) or people making fonts (think of inkscape+fontforge).
Which brings me to my last point: can we define what an average workflow is? can we define what a good intgration is? Let me explain this. You said:
"You don't seem to care about the fact that Inkscape is free software and there are people interested in achieving a good workflow between other free packages, but that's very important for many of us."
A bit unfair, don't you think? First' that is not the case. Second, I'm sure everyone here has a different opinion about what a good workflow/integration is ;) Actually now that you mention you're talking about VISUAL integration, which (IMHO) is a minor issue. Integration in a broader sense is what user needs to improve his workflow, like in Creative Suite. And I'm talking about major integration here! ;) For example in CS: -Sharing swatches between apps. -Ability to import Illustrator and PSD files to Indesign. -Ability to manipulate PSD, AI and PDF layers visibility from Indesign. -Ability to place vector art from Illustrator directly into Photoshop. -And others I don't remember right know. ** In brief: anything that avoids generating intermediate files or losing time sharing resources between apps. So my point is not that I don't like the idea of a workflow, my point is that to me a good workflow is something bigger than just sharing icons. In fact I could argue that sharing icons is a bad idea, as those are differents apps, with differents philosophies and differents tools.
Last time I saw Scribus it didin't import SVG files correctly. Let's apply Creative Suite philosophy to FOSS apps: -Ability to share swatches (CMYK/RGB/Spot) between apps. -Ability to place SVG files in Scribus. -Ability to edit a vector/bitmap file from Scribus with just one click (maybe is already there). -Ability to edit a bitmap file from inkscape (good, already there). -And some other things...?
To everyone: I think that, if this thread proves something, everyone has a different idea of what a good iconset is. That's why I still suggest that this should be done gradually. Here are pro-tango and people who want default ones so this seems to point that a GUI for selecting iconsets would be more efficient and sane as first steps.
Regards.