Re: [Gimp-developer] GIMP crashes at changing of theme

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On April 4, 2016 2:16:49 AM GMT+02:00, Akkana Peck <akkana shallowsky com> wrote:
> Alexander Rabtchevich writes:
> > Grey icons from small theme become undistinguishable to me - they do
> not
> > have enough contrast between background and image.
>
> Kevin Payne writes:
> > Can you be more specific about which Icon Theme you are having the
> low contrast problem with and what your system colours are, as the
> Small Theme will use your system colours there is no way to know which
> Icon Theme is going to work best for you.
>
> I have that problem with the Symbolic icons with all the Light or
> Lighter themes. When I first switched my initial reaction was "Why
> are all the Toolbox icons greyed out?!" Once I realized they weren't
> greyed out, they looked like that all the time, I tried to work with
> them, but I found that I really couldn't see the differences 

That's why there is the Symbolic-Inverted icon theme. Its icons are created by inverting the Symbolic ones 
(the reason why current GIMP builds take so long) and contrast quite well with the light themes.

> Another question about theme switching: every time I switch themes,
> my toolbox resizes to four icons across, so small that tooltips has
> to show a horizontal scrollbar for most tools. It has to be six
> icons across to avoid a scrollbar, and I always have to resize it
> larger after switching themes. Is this intentional, or should I file
> it as a bug?

You can shrink the toolbox down even further by switching the various icon themes. I'd say that none of the 
switching should change any window sizes.