On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:45:25 -0400, bulia byak <buliabyak@...155...> wrote:
IMHO, what makes the user thinks at first that Inkscape is not so user-friendly, are the icons : they are not looking very nice (may be the black border around all of them could be reduced, to make them look brighter),
But we DON'T have any border around icons. Especiilly "black border." Can you better explain what you mean, with a screenshot maybe?
Sorry, the term 'border' was not the good one. In fact, some icons, for example group and ungroup or all clones related ones have heavy black lines around the shapes (for group and ungroup, the strokes around the circle and the rectangle are wide, as is the red dashed line around the group icon) making the icons look dark and not so neat. I also find the rotating and mirroring icons a bit agressive visually (at least for me :) because of the black and yellow mix.
I'm pretty sure that a nicer icon set would greatly improve user experience and usability feeling, without changing anything else. I fully agree with you when you say that inkscape UI follow mental process ("I want it blue, blue is color, gimme the color thing!" ), and it would be even more the case with nicely designed icons, so you don't have to look around to find the "color thing".
I would agree with that. Some icons are decent and some are ugly, and they all certainly lack unity. But hey, this is exactly the place where an artist could help the project! Just grab share/icons/icons.svg and draw.
I fully agree with that, and be assured that if I were an artist, I would have tried to design a new iconset. Unfortunately, I am the only person to appreciate my artistic work :) However I will give it a try, who knows...