Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP Theme UI now and future.

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 12/29/2015 07:08 PM, Ben wrote:
> On 12/29/2015 06:41 PM, Elle Stone wrote:
> > Would it be too much to offer five default themes,
> > more or less spaced as follows?
> >
> > 1. Very dark ("Dark side of GIMP" / compare to darktable's default theme)
> > 2. Medium dark (compare to RawTherapee's default theme and Krita's
> > darkest theme, for people who like "dark but not that dark")
> > 3. Middle gray ("Sea of Gray" / compare to Krita's Neutral theme)
> > 4. Medium light ("Light side of GIMP"/ compare to Krita's two lighter
> > themes)
> > 5. Very light (the Lighter theme from bug 759830, or depending on
> > feedback from people who prefer very light themes, maybe a touch
> > lighter?).
>
> Elle you can see the original dark theme i had created for myself here
> https://github.com/draekko/gimp-cc-themes you'll find it a tad lighter
> than what i've submitted for GIMP

> Maybe we could have that color scheme in between dark and middle gray?
> That would give a bigger range theme tonality for most tastes with whats
> already there. Tweaking the dark theme to that one could be done quickly
> to have an alternative dark theme.

It seems to me that your original dark theme color scheme would make an 
excellent "between dark and middle gray" theme.

> > As I switch themes, each time the toolbox gets one icon narrower, but
> > this doesn't start happening until I've switched themes several times,
> > not sure what triggers it.
>
> Does it also happen with the Default & Small themes? I switch themes
> (and reload them) a lot during testing and i haven't encountered that?
> Could be something specific with icewm & gimp?

Upon further checking, I think this only happens when switching between 
any of the new themes and the old Default & Small themes, but not when 
switching between the new themes.

Not sure if it matters, but some of the themes cause errors to be 
printed to the terminal, for example:

config/themes/TheLightSideOfGimp/ui/null.png, borders don't fit within 
the image
config/themes/TheLightSideOfGimp/gtkrc:1688: Background image options 
specified without filename
config/themes/TheLightSideOfGimp/gtkrc:1709: Overlay image options 
specified without filename

Elle