Guillermo Espertino wrote:
It's not about bashing the current set. But there's a proposal to replace a set with a lot of problems for a complete, stylized and systematized set. The current Tango set has coherence. The current default set has a lot of style problems (some have chiseled look, some don't, some have saturated colors, some don't, some have outlines, some don't, there isn't apparently a color palette or some guides about how to combine the colors). It's functional, but it has a lot of problems. And fixing all those problems would require an incredible amount of work, a work that has already been done in the Tango set. You may dislike the Tango set, but you can't deny that the current state is more streamlined and look more polished if you put two screenshots together.
My suggestion was to put Tango as default just to see the users reaction. As a test. Another solution would be to add a GUI for selecting different themes present in the icons folder. But I still think that a finished set is better for the default look.
Gez.
Looking at the current set, I really don't see what's inconsistent about it (except a few minor inconsistencies with regard to styles, which really wouldn't be hard to work out).
I like the Tango icon set as an option, but I'd really prefer to keep the current set as default. Sure, it could be improved a little.
Also, I don't get confused at all when I switch between Gimp and Scribus and Inkscape. Or disoriented because the icons are different. If anything, Inkscape's particular icons may help me to know what the tool does. If I'm looking at an icon that's the same as Gimp (take the pen tool, for example), I'm not going to use a tool that's really the same.
I'm going to rally around the official icons.
Hang in there, official icons...we don't all hate you :)
(That last bit was a joke, not meant as anything spiteful - completely in good fun.)
JF