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

[Elle Stone <ellestone ninedegreesbelow com>]

On 01/01/2016 12:14 PM, Ben wrote:
> Elle, Jehan, i've updated the themes to add the separators, fixed some
> more KDE issues, reduced the focus padding on buttons as an expedient to
> making the them smaller without having to redo anything (and changed
> some of the pngs to harmonize all the themes), commented out the font
> settings so people can choose as they wish to have or not, added version
> numbers to the files so i can keep track of what people are using,
> started a repo so i can track changes locally available here
> https://github.com/Draekko-RAND/gimp-themes (which is where i'll keep
> the screenshots from now on).

Ben, thank you! I tried modifying just the colors for some of the items 
in the "Lighter side of GIMP" theme. It's not as easy as I thought it 
would be!

I've been using the (original) "Lighter side" theme and find that in use 
I actually like the wider icon spacing for the monotone icons. For color 
icons, the closer spacing is compensated for by the color 
differentiation, but not so much for the monotone icons. And at least to 
me the wider spacing for the monotone icons seems more attractive to 
look at.

The new separators are very helpful. Even though I know where the 
toolbox dividers are, without the separators often it was difficult to 
find the place to resize the panels (something I do fairly often, 
depending on what I'm working on).

Your themes make GIMP look very nice, very professional. It seems to me 
that the monotone icons are a pretty important part of that look. For 
this same reason personally I'd prefer that sliders in the monotone 
themese also be monontone - it just plain looks nice, and aesthetics do 
count.

I'm not sure how many themes and how many sets of icons are "too many". 
But given the following:

* many differently-sized devices are used for editing images
* the wide disparity in user personal preferences
* issues with eyesight and/or hand-eye coordination that might lead a 
user to prefer the wider icon spacing and/or color icons

it might be nice to include two sizes for icons - the original size and 
the smaller size, and also keep the original color icons in both sizes.

Elle