GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 148103
larger toolbox icons (dnd size)
Last modified: 2018-01-05 00:14:45 UTC
Everybody's working style is different, of course. For me, with my system, the default Gimp theme is fine except that I prefer the toolbox icons a bit larger -- dnd scale is perfect, and I suspect that quite a number of other people would feel that way if they knew how to get it. The problem, though, is that at that scale the icons look a bit fuzzy. Given how nice they are, that seems like a shame.
Do you really think it makes sense to create the icons in yet another size? Since that's what you would have to do. You can however do this already. Everything is in place. Just draw icons at the right size and register them using a gtkrc thereby defining a new theme. I suggest closing as NOTABUG since there is nothing that would have to be done in the GIMP source tree to make this possible.
Well, there's one thing that could be done and perhaps that's what your bug-report is actually all about. There's a bug in the code that registers the icons at various sizes. This is a long-standing bug in libgimpwidgets and should definitely be fixed for 2.2. It causes the smallest icon to be used if an icon needs to be scaled up because no icon is registered with the requested size. If that's what your bug report is all about, then please change the summary (it affects all icons, not only toolbox icons) and change severity to Normal.
Well, since that would definitely make a difference, we might as well say it's about that. But in addition, if the icon symbols were originally created at higher resolution and then scaled down (I don't know whether that's the case), it might be nice to make the originals available on the Gimp web page so that really nice scaled-up versions can be made if anybody wants to.
They definitely do not have been created at a higher resolution and scaled down. I know how Jimmac works and he would never do that.
I just verified that we do register the icons in a way that only the largest one gets scaled. Restoring old title and changing back to "enhancment".
There is a project [1] that some of the Tango artists are involved in to provide a common set of icons for free software graphics packages such as GIMP, Inkscape etc. We aim to provide icons at 16x16, 22x22 and scalable (48x48). There are discussions about specialcasing 32x32 as well, as it's very common and easily doable from the 48x48 SVG. This is however a long term run, I can't even guess how much time this will involve. [1] http://tango-project.org/ArtLibreSet
Likewise, should we close this as FIXED now?
Indeed. Copy paste from bug 725464, comment 17: By default, GIMP will propose big icons for high density screens. It will even auto-detect the density and propose something reasonable by default (and it is be possible to override this auto-detection by choosing smaller/bigger icons). As Mitch explains, third party theme creators will indeed have to update their theme, and in particular they will have to split the icons from the rest of the theme. Icon themes can be vector or bitmap, and they can propose several fixed size. I should make a blog post or something about the exact sizes, I guess. So yeah, this is all good, I guess. We now have HiDPI themes and third-party theme writers can propose their own as well.