Re: [Gimp-gui] About symbolic dark/light themes

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-12-09 21:16, Michael Natterer wrote:
> Top-posting, schumaml will kill me.
>
> Jehan, Can you just push this to master please? We need
> another theme in git in order to add code that uses the
> default theme as fallback for missing icons in other
> themes, and I'd like to add that code as long as there
> are icons missing in "Symbolic".
>
> But call the folders Default/ and Symbolic/, just like
> we do in themes/

Done, and done.

Jehan

> --Mitch
>
> On Wed, 2015-12-09 at 19:37 +0100, Jehan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > On 2015-11-10 17:36, Jehan wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Some time ago, Alex Prokoudine played with symbolic icons from the
> > > GNOME project
> > > (https://plus.google.com/+AlexandreProkoudine/posts/LP1pWr7YEgA).
> > > This
> > > kickstarted a discussion about new (potentially default, though
> > > existing ones should also stay) themes for GIMP, one with light
> > > background, one with dark background.
> > >
> > > Then a contributor started working
> > > (https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2013-October/m
> > > sg00020.html)
> > > from this base to create new themes from these monochrome icons.
> > > See http://www.jesusda.com/files/symbolic-gimp.7z (dark icons)
> > > And http://www.jesusda.com/files/symbolic-gimp_light.7z (light
> > > icons)
> > >
> > > We would be happy to finalize such themes and include them in GIMP
> > > when they are considered finished. I've encountered some issue
> > > having
> > > them work on the dev version of GIMP which uses now icon themes
> > > instead of including the icons from the gtkrc file (basically it
> > > seems
> > > any theme of GIMP using this method to change icons will be broken
> > > by
> > > GIMP 2.10). Unfortunately I cannot make the time to try and
> > > understand
> > > what is the problem since it's not my highest priority in GIMP.
> > > If anyone is interested in the projects, know well theming and icon
> > > themes and can make such a theme working with GIMP (dev version),
> > > we
> > > welcome contributions. This could (should IMO!) still make it to
> > > GIMP
> > > 2.10 if some people are into this.
> > >
> > > Scl also created a wiki page when we first started discussing
> > > integrating it into GIMP:
> > > http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Specs:UI_Theme (on the main wiki,
> > > not
> > > the GUI wiki, it would be good if both wikis were merged!).
> > >
> > > Just throwing this here, hoping some people are interested to
> > > contribute.
> >
> > Ok so we had a contributor who fixed GIMP to select icon themes. As I
> > thought, the problem of icon themes was lying within GIMP, which was
> > not
> > able to select new icon themes. This is now patched in master (more
> > work
> > is undergoing).
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759105
> >
> > Based on this, I have added all the icons from Jakub/Barbara/jEsuSda
> > in
> > a new theme which will be automatically installed with GIMP and can
> > be
> > chosen in the preferences.
> > You can test to build this by checking out the branch
> > origin/symbolic.
> >
> > There is still no dark theme, but this is only a detail and will be
> > extremely easy to add now.
> > What misses is that we are missing 49 icons (many are the same in
> > various sizes, so that's less).
> >
> > Who would be interested to contribute new icons?
> > Only requirements is accepting the GPL v3 license and following the
> > icon
> > set design style.
> > Also if you could work with a SVG source and providing these too,
> > rather
> > than working with bitmap sources.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jehan
> >
> > > Jehan
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