Re: scaled icons

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/9/06, Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On 5/9/06, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:01 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 18:31 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > > Il giorno mar, 09/05/2006 alle 10.34 -0400, Matthias Clasen ha scritto:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > only 28 were scaled. If you look at the attached list, you see
> > > > > that most of them fall into 2 categories:
> > > > >
> > > > > - gtk stock icons which are used in buttons, thus are loaded in
> > > > >   size 20, but are only available in size 24
> > > >
> > > > So, could we switch GTK+ to use 16 pixels icons for buttons?
> > > >
> > > > I'm using this behavior via .gtkrc and it's not so bad.
> > > >
> > >
> > > How about simply adding the missing icons instead ?
> > >
> > > 20 is already small, and it is not going to get better with increasing
> > > screen solutions.
> >
> > Because it's already bad enough that we have to draw them in 16 and 22
> > sizes. Any reason to not make the buttons use 22 or 24 instead, to match
> > the toolbar size? It's hard enough drying the icons at these small
> > sizes. Having to redraw the icons with 2 square pixels of difference so
> > many times is just not worth the time.
> >

Sent too early.

...alternatively, if you think drawing icons is too much work, and
themes should rather
use the available sizes, just set the button size to 24 in the gtkrc
file. See the large print
themes for how to do that.

Matthias