On Nov 21, 2006, at 10:10 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:

Dear Inkscape developers.

Myself and some other folks are currently working on some icons for 

Inkscape [1], but have ran into some issues.

Apparently my build (13378 ...the latest one I got to work) wants to use 

16x16 images for the icons in both the topmost (although the ones it 

gets from the desktop theme is 24x24) and the secondary toolbar. The 

tools toolbar however still use 24x24 images (and that is the correct 

behavior I suspect).

However, other peoples toolbars use the 24x24 size (and so did mine 

until recently), this leads to the problem that I don't know what size 

to aim at. If I use 24x24 images for the toolbar, they get blurry on my 

system, and if I use 16x16 it gets blurry on others.

What is the correct size used by these toolbars, and is there some way I 

can have icons in several sizes?

The several sizes issue is even more troublesome, as the icons from the 

tools toolbar gets all blurry in the undo history dialog among other 

places [2].



I'll be looking at some of the other issues... however the answer to what size to use is simple.


Whatever the user wants.

:-)


The specific size is first drawn from the theme. The specific "dynamic" size we pick is further affected by an option.

So, one of the things I do in testing things is switch to the "large print" theme. This pops sizes up very much.