Re: [Gimp-gui] What should be the default theme and icon theme?

[Pat David <patdavid gmail com>]

I would opt for the dark theme to be the default, personally.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 7:26 PM Jehan <jehan girinstud io> wrote:

Oh one more question!

On 2016-03-22 01:21, Jehan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Now we have 5 themes in GIMP: lighter, light, gray, dark and darker.
> The "Default" theme will likely stay since it corresponds to the
> default theme of your desktop.
> The "Small" theme will disappear as soon as we have customizable icon
> size (which should be soon, there is already a working patch, but I
> have to take the time and improve it before merging).
>
> We have a symbolic icon theme in light and dark colors, and a new
> color icon theme. Hopefully all these should be vectorial in the end,
> allowing various scaling, while still be pixel-perfect at least for
> the default size.
> The original icon theme stays under the name "Legacy".
>
> Now for GIMP 2.10, the default icon theme should likely be one of the
> symbolic themes, since this is the direction where most software are
> going, and historic GIMP/GNOME icon designer Jimmac really things this
> is the way to go.
>
> So the questions are:
> 1/ which symbolic icon theme should be the default? The dark or the
> light one?
> 2/ which theme should be the default (of course, the answer to 1/
> limits the possible answers to 2/)?

3/ Since "Default" won't be the default theme anymore, how should it be
renamed? Basically that's the theme which follows the current desktop
theme. So should it be "System"? "Desktop-integration"? Something else?

Jehan

> Thanks!
>
> Jehan
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