I mentioned on a previous thread that I thought it would be nice if the Inkscape icons had different colours for rectangle, ellipse, star, and I figured it would make sense to match their defualt colours (blue, red, yellow respectively).

I hand edited icons.svg and changed the ellipse/arc to use a red gradient that already existed and that worked nicely. then I tried to change the star to yellow by adding another gradient but that doesn't seem to have worked as planned because I somehow managed to break the blue rectangle in the process.

screenshot here: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/inkscape-coloured-icons-test.png and if you want to try it for yourself you can grab my modified icons.svg and drop it in place of the current one: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/inkscape-coloured-icons-test_icons...

If people like this I'll try a brighter shade of Yellow and try to do this again properly without losing the blue rectangle and I'll submit a patch.

I also played around with was converting the file to Standard SVG and it still worked fine.

From reading the markup I have noticed that it is extremely verbose (more

accurately I was reminded having previously noticed this in Sodipodi) and I cannot think of any reason why this markup needs to be written. For example a lot of style information about fonts in groups that done contain any text or setting the fill-style:none but and then still setting the unneccessary fill-rule, so i filed an enhancement request asking for less verbose markup and with some suggestions. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=909368&grou...

Sincerely

Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/