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

[C R <cajhne gmail com>]

I too had to change the light theme icons right away for lack of
visibility. Maybe the "symbolic inverted" icon theme should be the default
active. Then only the mid-tone theme(s) have visibility issues. :)

My 2p.
-C


On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 7:35 AM, Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de> wrote:

> 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.
>
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