El jue, 22-01-2009 a las 14:02 -0500, bulia byak escribió:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Guillermo Espertino <gespertino@...400...> wrote:
I haven't commit rights to do the change myself, so i'd like to ask someone who do, to apply the change if there are no objections.
There are objections. It was already discussed on this list, please search the archives.
Bulia: I've take a look at nable archives and found a couple of threads. Please let me know if there's something else.
I found that the issues were basically about: -Style. -Licensing. -Set completion.
About Style: Some people thought that some icons looked bad (bucket fill, 3D box, the coloring scheme of some geometric primitives). The Tango style has quite clear guidelines about that. For instance, the 3D box. According the guidelines, the projection has to be 1 point perspective. The current icon respects that and gives an idea of what to expect of the tool. Maybe it isn't the best way to represent perspective but it respects the guidelines. The bucket fill icon already exists in the Art Libre set and is used in other tools, like Gimp. The goal of this set is to achieve an even look between free graphic applications, so I can't see why change it. Again, maybe it isn't the best representation of a paint bucket but nobody will have problems to imagine what the tool does. About the color of the primitives: They are primitives, they are basic building blocks for constructing shapes... I think they are something generic and it's fine to represent them in neutral shades. Again, Scribus uses the same approach. Maybe there is room for an extra discussion about the need of changing some custom icons to match the existing ones in other applications (for instance, the flipping tools. Make them look as GIMP's one).
The current icon set looks a tad childish. I showed inkscape to a lot of fellow designers and they always make comments about the look, but they are surprised by the excellent features. When I show them GIMP or Scribus they rant about missing features, not about the look. I really think that many people may be overlooking inkscape because it doesn't look "pro".
About Licensing: I found a comment (curiously from the same guy who finished the set) stating that the CC License of Tango icons is not compatible with a GPL program. I don't know if that's still an issue but it doesn't seem to be a problem for Scribus and GIMP people.
About set completion: The set is pretty complete now. Maybe there are too much icons in the menus (I've also read that it's not desirable) but there isn't any icon of the current set missing.
Well, this is more or less a summary of what I found. I'd like to know what people think about the current state of the set and about the idea of making it the default one.
Please let me know if I'm missing something else.