bulia byak wrote:
On 10/24/07, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
Add, as Elisa pointed out to me, there is a wiki page started about this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TangoifiedIcons
I'm sorry to spoil the party but I really, really don't like the "proposed icon" column for tools. They:
- are too pale and too different in blackness/visual clout - some are
barely visible on a LCD (star), some are much more visible, but overall they are much paler and drabber than our current set
I actually agree with this. Having looked at the Tango icons next to the original, I like the original better in many cases, especially for the bolder colors. ...and I'm partial to my paintbucket icon...
- lack meaningful parallelism: it is not coincidental that pen,
pencil, and calligraphic pen in our current set are all drawn at the same slant; in tango the pen is way too different in all aspects, breaking the consistency of drawing tools
I was also wondering about this. I think it looks better to have the same slant and I like the old pen style better. The new pen style is kind of difficult to determine what it is, unless you know already. In addition, the magnifying glasses aren't all consistent, which is a little odd.
- lack coordination with our mouse cursors: in our current set, node
tool uses this thin triangular black pointer depicted on its icon, and paintbucket cursor is also similar to the icon - this is not the case with proposed icons
This can, of course, be easily remedied, can't it?
- lack a lot of meaningful details that help Inkscape user understand
the purpose and operation of the tool: cursor in Text, handles and gradient line in Gradient, both polygon and star in Star tool to suggest it can create both, mnemonic colors of shape tools that correspond to their default colors in newly installed Inkscape.
Makes sense.
I think that these problems outweigh the advantages if any, and I just don't see a convincing reason for the change.
I agree with most of what you said readily. However, I think it's important to try to make a unified UI between common apps.
So I was also wondering, if these things can be remedied, are you against making an icon set change? Are you just opposed to Tango's color scheme / style?
Besides, even if it's not made the default icon set, it's still nice to have as an alternative.
JF