[Gimp-developer] new default icon theme proposal

[Bart]

Very cool!

The only thing is now that the toolbar needs grouping functions like:
http://www.neeneenee.de/blender/toolbar.png

or

http://www.neeneenee.de/blender/toolbar02.png

Jakub Steiner schrieb:
> Hi GIMP developers,
> I write to propose a new default icon set for GIMP 2.4. As GIMP is a
> multiplatform application it will in my view benefit greatly from an
> icon set that follows the Tango style guidelines [1]. 
> 
> Apart from defining a common visual style for free software
> applications, one of the design goals was to make applications look
> close to native on major desktop environments. The current GIMP set
> includes elements that made the icons look quite unique (desaturated
> colors, black stroke). That may not sound like problem, but as GIMP has
> a lot of users on the windows and macintosh platforms, it is desirable
> not to look "out of place" on those platforms. Similarly, KDE users will
> most probably find GIMP look less alien on their desktop.
> 
> You can preview the looks of the new GIMP icon set here:
> 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/gimp-light-tango.png
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/screenshots/gimp-dark.png
> 
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/libgimpwidgets/libgimpwidgets-GimpStock.html
> 
> While the set isn't completely finished yet (some preference icons
> missing) I'd like to thank Lapo Calamandrei and William Szilveszter for
> their contributions.
> 
> And lastly -- this isn't a lonesome effort. Andreas Nilsson already
> contributed large amounts of icons that follow the Tango guidelines to
> the Scribus project [2]. At the same time, I am well into having an
> OpenOffice set done [3]. After these are done, work will resume on the
> gnome icon theme [4].
> 
> Also worth mentioning -- there is a project to create a standard set of
> stock icons for graphic applications with a rather unimaginitive name -
> Tango Art Libre [5]. This will allow to unify metaphors and perhaps even
> share resources. This is still work in progress.
> 
> cheers
> 
> [1] - http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
> [2] - http://kde-artists.org/taxonomy/term/21
> [3] - http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=Tango-OOo
> [4] - http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=git2
> [5] - http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet
> 
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