Since I've been working on Ubuntu lately I noticed that all the icons have excessive sizes on this system. It seems the toolbars, which AFAIK were desiged to used 16X16 icons, actually use 24X24 icons instead (obviously this is taken from the Ubuntu GTK theme). Also, docked dialogs are extremely wide. I'm using a 1280X1024 resolution desktop, and the dialogs still take up almost a third of the width of the screen. they are on the largish side on Windows as well, but not as large as on Ubuntu.
This is a problem, usability-wise. It leaves very little space for actual work, and unless you work on almost full screen, you usually won't even see all the icons on the toolbar because the last ones on the right are clipped.
Is it possible to somehow make inkscape ignore the current global gtk theme and use its own icon and widget sizes?
On Dec 23, 2007, at 12:36 AM, Michael Grosberg wrote:
This is a problem, usability-wise. It leaves very little space for actual work, and unless you work on almost full screen, you usually won't even see all the icons on the toolbar because the last ones on the right are clipped.
Is it possible to somehow make inkscape ignore the current global gtk theme and use its own icon and widget sizes?
It's definitely possible, but not a good idea.
Applications are supposed to follow the sizes set by the system. If they don't, it's a bug.
The better solution would be to follow what the system allows for. Just Change the gtk theme settings for Inkscape and the application should obey that.
As far as clipped icons on the toolbar go, GTK should give you a drop- down to access them. And in the post-0.46 timeframe we'll be able to expose the internal XML used to dynamically create the toolbars.
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