On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:49:44PM +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote: > To be honest I don't want to bother with all this work to provide an > 'alternative' icon theme. The unique gnome 2.0 style make gtk apps on > platforms such as MS Windows or Mac OS X totally out of place. I'm quite > sad to see you hold on to that.
Yes, I do agree that GTK+ applications look out of place on other platforms, especially so when you are not using a theme engine resembling the native look of the platform. Though even with a native theme engine GTK+ applications will still be GTK+ applications with regards to behavior, etc. The concern which I want to raise, and which I already did in my previous mail, is the following: "Does updating icons account as a break of backward compatibility?". Running a GTK+ application which has some custom drawn icons with the new stock icons, might make those custom icons look out of place. A GTK+ application which is putting a custom drawn "overlay" on a new stock icon might look out of place. And, for example Gossip, is using the gtk-justify-left icon as an icon for the "View Previous Conversations" menu item -- this might also break with a new stock icon which is using a different metaphor to communicate the intention of the item to the user. Or is using a stock item for a different action as intended seen as a misuse of the API? I am sure Gossip is not the only application doing this. I am all for making GTK+ applications fit better in other platforms, I am just questioning the impact on the backward compatibility. If people think this is not causing any breakage, then I see no reason to hold this from happening. regards, -kris. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list