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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2016-03-22 09:42, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 3:21 AM, Jehan wrote:
>
> > 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/)?
>
> These questions don't make a lot of sense to me. Light symbolic icon
> theme doesn't work well with lighter UI themes. Dark symbolic icon
> theme doesn't work well with darker UI themes. Otherwise the contrast
> is compromised.

Well that's why I explicitly said: "the answer to 1/ limits the possible 
answers to 2/".

> Hence if the system/default UI theme is considerably light, you
> automatically go with the dark icon theme.

Yes the alternative is to keep using the "Default/System" theme. But as 
you note, we would need to know whether this is a light or dark theme. 
Now there may be a way, but I just can't find it. I am a little lost in 
all this GTK+ theming thing. We don't want to use light icons on a 
system light themes, nor dark on dark.

So either someone gives me the solution to this, and then I think 
keeping the system theme is clearly the best solution (at least for 
Linux distributions. On Windows and OSX, this probably doesn't matter), 
or we have to choose one of our new themes and make our own default 
choice, not caring about what how the system theme is configured.

Last alternative is of course to keep using color icons (since they go 
on every shade of grey), but then we go against the opinion of Jimmac 
and other designers.

> > 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?
>
> 'System' looks good to me :)

Seems most people think "System" is good. I guess I'll rename it this 
way, then.

Jehan

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