Josef Vybiral wrote:
Daniel Pope píše v St 17. 01. 2007 v 11:07 +0000:
Josef Vybiral wrote:
There was a different Tangoified version of the Inkscape icon submitted to the Tango mailing list yesterday.
I am aware of that icon. The bad about that icon is that its quality cannot be compared to the one in the tracker which looks imho much better.
share/clipart/inkscape.icon.svg is much higher quality than either.
Where is this file? I do not have it in my SVN checkout. I have /share/clipart/inkscape.logo.svg only and it is a logo, not an icon. There is no inkscape.svg icon in size of 48x48 or 32x32 or smaller sizes.
Sorry, that's the one I mean. It's not an icon, no, but the shape is better. It has received several amendments over time. The icons seem to have been sourced from older versions.
The situation appears to be:
- Vista, Mac OS X and Oxygen are more photo-realistic.
Yes, but these icons are intended to be displayed on high resolution displays and/or in bigger sizes. And to be honest, I do not see how we could make Inkscape's icon photo-realistic :)
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/45360907/ :)
- XP and Crystal are colourful and shiny.
Yes they are. To make icons fit these "themes" was also one of reasons why the example implementation of tango uses the palette that it uses; IIRC.
Really? Tango is much flatter and more subdued than XP or Crystal.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/27940418/
But I can't see how an ideal solution might work. Should we maintain icons compatible with all the icon styles I mentioned?
Well, that would probably be most ideal solution. Or we can find a compromise between tango and other styles like oxygen, xp/vista etc..., to make icon look more neutral.
Ok, well obviously we need to maintain our own icons for Mac and Windows, but on Linux icon themes take precedence over bundled icons.
Perhaps we should provide a selection of icons to packagers, because the different distros have different requirements with respect to default icons. Many distros default to KDE with Crystal icons; Ubuntu defaults to Gnome with Human icons.
As I say, I don't know exactly how this works or how it is conventionally dealt with.
Dan
Dan