Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP Theme UI now and future.

[Kevin Payne]

>>
>> I'm not sure how many themes and how many sets of icons are "too
>> many". But given the following:
>>
>> * many differently-sized devices are used for editing images
>> * the wide disparity in user personal preferences
>> * issues with eyesight and/or hand-eye coordination that might lead a
>> user to prefer the wider icon spacing and/or color icons
>>
>5 is my limit since i have to maintain them and test them on all variant
>OSes :) Its hard to make it work across everything and time consuming to
>keep it up. So far i've tested them on OSX (Maverick only so far),
>Windows (8.1 so far), Linux (KDE, Unity, Wine under Unity) to make sure
>they felt the same across the board. There's only so much that can be
>tweaked to keep that true.

>> it might be nice to include two sizes for icons - the original size
>> and the smaller size, and also keep the original color icons in both
>> sizes.
>>
>I think there are plans to switch eventually to svg icons which would
>render the point moot.
>
>Ben

And how do your themes look on high resolution displays? Given that there is 
increasing demand for larger icons I think you have to consider that you may 
have many more variants to support.

Kevin

Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP Theme UI now and future.

[Ben]

On 01/01/2016 01:27 PM, scl wrote:


Hi,

nice to see that the long-time topic 'UI theme' is now making such a
progress!

I'm also impressed by Ben's screenshots!

Thank you.


To address users' different needs and preferences we could consider
offering variants of the same theme: dark (black or
anthrazite-coloured), silver grey, light (white or light gray).


I've got most of that covered eh :)

I once starte a wiki page for this topic and don't know for sure
about the current state. Is there yet anything to be done with respect
to this page?

Not sure first time i see it, i'm sure others in the know will comment 
eventually :)



Greetings and have a happy new year!

Back at you :)

Re: [Gimp-gui] GIMP Theme UI now and future.

[Elle Stone]

On 01/01/2016 12:14 PM, Ben wrote:



Elle, Jehan, i've updated the themes to add the separators, fixed some
more KDE issues, reduced the focus padding on buttons as an expedient to
making the them smaller without having to redo anything (and changed
some of the pngs to harmonize all the themes), commented out the font
settings so people can choose as they wish to have or not, added version
numbers to the files so i can keep track of what people are using,
started a repo so i can track changes locally available here
https://github.com/Draekko-RAND/gimp-themes (which is where i'll keep
the screenshots from now on).


Ben, thank you! I tried modifying just the colors for some of the items 
in the "Lighter side of GIMP" theme. It's not as easy as I thought it 
would be!


I've been using the (original) "Lighter side" theme and find that in use 
I actually like the wider icon spacing for the monotone icons. For color 
icons, the closer spacing is compensated for by the color 
differentiation, but not so much for the monotone icons. And at least to 
me the wider spacing for the monotone icons seems more attractive to 
look at.


The new separators are very helpful. Even though I know where the 
toolbox dividers are, without the separators often it was difficult to 
find the place to resize the panels (something I do fairly often, 
depending on what I'm working on).


Your themes make GIMP look very nice, very professional. It seems to me 
that the monotone icons are a pretty important part of that look. For 
this same reason personally I'd prefer that sliders in the monotone 
themese also be monontone - it just plain looks nice, and aesthetics do 
count.


I'm not sure how many themes and how many sets of icons are "too many". 
But given the following:


* many differently-sized devices are used for editing images
* the wide disparity in user personal preferences
* issues with eyesight and/or hand-eye coordination that might lead a 
user to prefer the wider icon spacing and/or color icons


it might be nice to include two sizes for icons - the original size and 
the smaller size, and also keep the original color icons in both sizes.


Elle