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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2015-12-31 00:07, Akkana Peck wrote:
> Elle writes:
> > >On my system the "light side of GIMP" theme and the current default
> > >GIMP theme are very close in tonality, with the "light side of GIMP
> > >theme being a tad lighter. Here's a screenshot showing the two themes
> > >side by side:
> > >http://ninedegreesbelow.com/bug-reports/gimp29/light-side-vs-default-small.jpg
> [ ... ]
> > >1. The "light side of GIMP" theme has a lot of darker tones in things
> > >like sliders, boxes for choosing parameters, the menu bar, and really
> > >just about everywhere. This makes for too little contrast between the
> > >sliders, boxes, etc and any contained text. It seems to me that a
> > >lighter shade of gray would make the text stand out better.
>
> I should clarify that my comment about both light themes being too
> dark and lacking contrast referred to the darker #bdbdbd color that
> Elle mentions here, not the base #eeeeee color. The darker color
> predominates in the screenshots, including in areas where there's a
> lot of text to read. Black against #bdbdbd is a lot less contrasty
> and harder to read than what I currently see in GIMP 2.9 and earlier.
>
> Jehan writes:
> > I agree. Also do we want the theme to get rid of colors? If I were to
> > decide, I'd say no. For sliders for instance, I quite prefer this 
> > blue|white
> > colors to the white|grey proposed.
>
> I don't have strong feelings about the current blue/white sliders
> vs. the grey/white ones in the "lighter side" theme, though I find
> the 3D highlights in the "alternate light" sliders prettier and more
> professional looking than the flat ones (just a personal prejudice,
> I'll be fine using whatever GIMP ends up with).
>
> However, I'd be sorry to see the colors in the Toolbox icons go. I
> have a very hard time telling many of the icons apart already, even
> with color cues, and without color it'll be a lot harder. I know
> there are people who don't want color icons distracting them, but
> I don't think I'll be able to use these monochrome Toolbox icons,
> and that will probably drive me to a custom theme, and might drive
> some users away from GIMP if it's not easy to find alternate themes.

Color icons won't go as long as I have a word to say. For me, the 
symbolic icons have always been considered as an "alternative", but I 
consider them as equal importance as the color ones.

Jehan

>         ...Akkana
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