On Nov 28, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Stephan" == Stephan Witt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephan> If my view is worth anything, I would say that in case one
Stephan> can select theicon size they should look sensible after doing
Stephan> so. If that is possible with scaling it is ok. If it is not,
Stephan> then the only sensible option is to provide the hand crafted
Stephan> icon sets to chose from in parallel to the freedom of choice.
Yes, the right way of doing this is to provide an alternative set of
icons that are properly scaled. I do not know any program that allows
one to choose any icons size ("hmm, shall I pick 17 or 18?")
KDE allows to choose among 5 or 6 sizes, but this is because they have
SVG icons for the large sizes (and proper bitmap icons for the small
ones). Firefox has big and small. I doubt that small is less than 22.
What happens with typical windows apps? What happens with OSX apps?
JMarc
OSX typically has 2 icon sizes that can be selected -- normal and small.
By my lights, the trouble with the icons in 1.5 is not that the icons
themselves are too big or small, but that there is too much empty
space around each icon. It looks as though that could be reduced
significantly without altering the substance of the icon.
Bennett
