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

[Kevin Payne <paynekj hotmail com>]

> > 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
> 5 is my limit since i have to maintain them and test them on all variant
> OSes :) Its hard to make it work across everything and time consuming to
> keep it up. So far i've tested them on OSX (Maverick only so far),
> Windows (8.1 so far), Linux (KDE, Unity, Wine under Unity) to make sure
> they felt the same across the board. There's only so much that can be
> tweaked to keep that true.

> > 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.
> I think there are plans to switch eventually to svg icons which would
> render the point moot.
>
> Ben

And how do your themes look on high resolution displays? Given that there is increasing demand for larger 
icons I think you have to consider that you may have many more variants to support.

Kevin