Great work. Especialy the zoom tools. But I think that main tools icons are not so Tangoish. They're missing a lighter "inner" outline (pretty visible on the green import/export arrows). Also can you post a download link?

Sorry for the for the late reply but I was busy being useful in other ways. On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Ronan Zeegers wrote: Tango has eyecandy but the really important thing is the underlying icon specification. I really hope that work could happen at the same time as any switch to another icon set, we've had one switch already. Now to the icons themselves. Consistency is good but you have made the retangle, star, and circle, all the same colour. I understand some people prefer all their icons to be almost monochrome (see the lastest version of Krita Paint in KOffice) but this was an intentional difference in Inkscape which Sodipodi didn't have and as far as I know there is nothing in Tango which should prevent you from having this differentiation. There are larger problems with the icons I'm not sure any theme can solve, and thank you for bringing this to my attention to this specific taks and making me rethink it and reapply what I have learned. I would be very interested to print out the icons only and ask users to write down what they think the icon represents. A picture may be worth a thousand words but sometimes a word or two is all your really need. (Comic books provide both pictures and words, even better!) Only the most frequently used items should need toolbar icons, I wonder if both import/export bitmap are really all that frequent. More to the point if a user feels the need to hit those buttons over and over there has to be a better overall process for batch exporting bitmaps but I'm repeating myself on this topic. I can sort of understand the document properties (metadata) having toolbar icon but if the preferences need to be changed so often as to require a toolbar icon then the preferences are badly broken ("snap to grid" probably and a few others probably need to be moved back into the menus, was a nice idea but it didn't really work. Using the menu structure from Adobe/Macromedia might serve as a useful baseline if anyone is interested in trying to figure it out.) Another issue with the logic of the icon metaphors - again not your fault - is that font family is represented with a big T and the text tool is represented with a big A. An icon or graphic to show _text_ kinda sucks in principle but it practice is it sometimes unavoidable. Using the letter T for text makes sense in English but not necessarily other languages, which is why the letter A is used instead. In rare cases applications implement a whole load of infrastructure to allow internationalisable icons for things like (B)old, (I)talic, (U)nderline. Abiword is one such application that has or at least had this infrastructure but once Abiword switched to the Gnome 2 icons it just used the letter A. To answer another question (and if I recall correctly) the 24x24 icon size is a Tango thing, to try and bring Gnome closer in line with other platforms and avoid squishing and rescaling effects. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org

Ronan Zeegers wrote: First at all: great work dude! I like tango icons and i think your work is so good and pretty. The only thing wrong with this project is that tango icon library is licenced CC-by-share alike and this is not GPL compatible :( I ask tango icon project people about this time ago and it appears not possible a licence change in the future :( Tango is a cool and very good project, but the CC license makes no possible to include this work in any gpl project by default. :(

Like popolon, I don't see where is the flip problem?!?

Bob Jamison wrote: The indications for editing are the handles ;) You can find the same concept in Xaraxtreme. I didn't like the current solution... The arrow is a bit strange and don't really look like a classical arrow. And I think it has the same problem has others icons in Inkscape: to many elements to describe an action. I had the choice between 2 solutions: 1. the white arrow. I think it have been introduced by Adobe and it is now well know in computer users mind has "node/bezier editing". 2. something closer to what bezier editing looks like: a curve with 2 handles. I chose the second solution. But it's clear that I have to change the "symmetric node" icon now...

bulia byak wrote: I was not for this solution either but now, I just remember that this Tool is not only about bezier editing... it's also about rounded corner and other sub-object editing stuffs. I can draw a straight line with a square above. Does someone have a better idea? Ronan

momo wrote: For the record, Tango-fied or not, I personally like our current icons quite a bit. Our current "editor" icon does represent the function of the tool well as-is (in my opinion). And yes rounding corners is more of a function of the rectangle tool... but what about editing Offsets and Patterns? It is the only tool that edits them that I'm aware of. -Josh

About this, I want to say than the gradient tool is not really clear in actual icon set. I believe that's because there is not enough contrast. User don't understand it. Ronan, in your tango iconset, this is more confusing because gradient nodes do not follow gradient position. About rotating icons, they are not flipped, only rotated, in original like in tango version everything is ok. Andreas Nilsson wrote:

jEsuSdA 8) wrote: Thx jEsuSdA! I don't think it's a big deal... It just means a bit more works and that I have to say goodbye to the current magnifying glass :( But the good news is that I can keep the pencil icon. Thanx to Andreas for the information! Ronan.