proposed change to icons
On inkscape-devel, I've proposed some changes to some of Bulia's icons. Some people seemed to like the new versions better, and some didn't. We didn't seem to have a statistically significant sample of opinions, so I'm reposting now to both inkscape-devel and inkscape-user.
I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking.
The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)
On 30/12/04 06:13:40, Ben Crowell wrote:
I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png
They look good. I think those are clean, professional colours.
That's a 1. Andrew
Up spake Ben Crowell:
The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg
I like `em. They're usable with my white-on-black GTK theme, because they don't have completely-black parts.
I like them also !
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:13:40 +0000, Ben Crowell <inkscapecrowell04@...327...> wrote:
On inkscape-devel, I've proposed some changes to some of Bulia's icons. Some people seemed to like the new versions better, and some didn't. We didn't seem to have a statistically significant sample of opinions, so I'm reposting now to both inkscape-devel and inkscape-user.
I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking.
The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)
There's no need to argue. Ben, you can continue working on the new icon set, and when you are ready we will ship your icons.svg alongside the old one, so people can choose whichever they like. Trent, the same for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for your black background, and we'll ship them also. When there's at least one complete set besides the old one, we can make a preference with a UI to choose one of them on load.
As for me, I prefer the crisp, bright, and laconic style and, when I create new icons in my set, I will continue developing that style. Everyone can use what they like.
Up spake bulia byak:
Trent, the same for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for your black background.
That's on my real-soon-now[0] list :-)
The truth is, Inkscape is near the bottom of the list of projects I'm involved with. That's why I'm not on the -devel list.
[0] As in http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/Real-Soon-Now.html.
I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png
I like them.
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Ben Crowell wrote:
The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)
1 - i like them, but i feel you should also change the icons for lower/raise, to use the same set of colors
participants (8)
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Andrew Conkling -
Ben Crowell -
bulia byak -
Joshua A. Andler -
Jozsef Mak -
Jukka -
Nicu Buculei -
Trent Buck