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

[Jehan <jehan girinstud io>]

Hi,

On 2016-03-22 09:14, Kevin Payne wrote:
> Well I'm pleased you've re-named them in git because I was about to
> complain about the names- Darker is a relative term, It's darker than
> what? Than the Dark? Than the Grey? But you have now established that
> Darker is darker than Dark! (and Lighter is lighter than Light) and
> thankfully we don't have to think about localising the names.
>
> As you say, the theme defines which symbolic icon-theme to use, and my
> choice of theme would be the mid-grey (but personally I will modify it
> to make the text white instead of dark) With the light symbolic icons.
>
> As far as a new name for the "Default" theme - I think "System" does 
> the job.
>
> And on a side note, I'm not continuing with making pixel-aligned icons
> because I've been unable to get anyone to communicate a decision about
> what sizes are the default.

Sorry lately I could not make the time to think much on this specific 
topic. :-/

Jehan

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> Kevin
>
> ________________________________________
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> Jehan <jehan girinstud io>
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> Subject: Re: [Gimp-gui] What should be the default theme and icon 
> theme?
>
> 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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