On Mar 22, 2006, at 1:28 AM, Michael Grosberg wrote:
What can be done here? I think several windows need to be trimmed down. For example, the icon preview window has a preview for an icon size of 128X128 pixels. At such a large size, a pixel preview is not really needed: I think a maximum size of 48X48, like it was before, is enough.
Actually.... other uses asked for it to be changed to the way it is.
However, if *you* want to change that, you can just edit the preferences. There's a group "iconpreview" that has a group "sizes" that has a set of groups, one for each size. Just change the appropriate size group's "show" value to 0 (zero) and it will go away next time you start up.
There is the whole issue of widget size which affects dialog size: Inkscape's widgets seem to be designed for large monitor sizes, while in other graphic applications widgets tend to be smaller and so a lot of dialogs fit in a neat row at the right of the screen. If there is a way to implement something like Gimp's theme chooser which allows you to choose a theme where all the widgets are smaller, it would be great.
The sizes in Inkscape follow the stock GTK+ mechanisms, so you should just be able to change things in a gtkrc to get the desired sizes.