On 2007-October-24 , at 05:21 , Ryan Lerch wrote:
microUgly wrote possible to pull their icons? I haven't been able to find a public repository of icons for these applications.
AFAIK, both the current inkscape tango icons and the gimp tango icons are based off the tango art-libre set from tango project:
Indeed, and that's probably why some don't look crisp and clear in Inkscape yet: they may not be hinted at the right size. From what I know of the Tango workflow, the icons are designed in vector at large size and then the smaller sizes are tweaked in a raster editor. If the large Tango vector icons are scaled down without being hinted or not scaled down enough to match Inkscape's sizes, that makes them look "blurry" or "jaggy" in a GTK theme (i.e. with icon sizes) which fits current icon theme well.
For information a set of sizes in a GTK theme which works well with current icons is: gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-menu=16,16:gtk-dialog=48,48:gtk-dnd=32,32:gtk- button=20,20:gtk-large-toolbar=24,24:gtk-small-toolbar=16,16:inkscape- decoration=12,12" inkscape-decoration are locks, the "Affect" icons etc. Furthermore, the toolbars use gtk-small-toolbar (16px) while most other apps use gtk-large-toolbar (commonly 24px). But anyway, keeping compatibility with current theme should be paramount, so Tango icons should be hinted in their vector version at the size of their current equivalent to look as crisp as now. I am sure this was already done for some, but apparently not for all of them. I am conscious that all this depends on the GTK theme but I imagine that's the price to pay for vector icons.
From what I can tell from that page, most of the icons that we may need are
covered in that "Spec" but a lot seem to be not drawn yet,
If we start working on them, we should work closely with the tango guys, so the 1 job isn't being done twice by two different open communities...
(that's my 2 cents anyway...)
Since many Inkscape icons will need to be drawn at smaller sizes than what the Tango guys usually work at, this may interfere though.
It would be really nice to see these improve. Thanks for showing interest!
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/