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[Stefan Schwarzburg <stefan.schwarzburg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David,


> I like your symbolic icon, thanks! The only piece of feedback that I
> have is that if we were to ship custom symbolic icons, I'd make them
> monochrome as the rest of the application's icons.
>
> Then I think it would be better to change the icon, because a colorwheel
without color would not be recognizable. :-)


> Let me add part of the reply I sent with the merge proposal:
>
> I do want to have symbolic icons in there, and your help would be really
> appreciated. However, and even though I started creating some icons
> myself (see [1]), I see it more as a low priority, as the things to get
> ready for the release start piling up.
>
> My only concern with shipping custom icons is that we're effectively
> hardcoding them: we'll make them so that they resemble the default
> symbolic theme, but if the style of the theme changes in the next Ubuntu
> release, we'd need to change them too.
>
> One added issue is that since the icons that we'd ship would have to be
> loaded as images instead of icons from the standard theme path, they
> would look slightly different from the rest of the icons on other buttons.
>
>
OK


> One thing is colour (the symbolic icons' colour is loaded from the theme
> settings, which we'd have to emulate by hardcoding that colour into our
> icons, see some background here [2]). In my experience the other is size
> (last time I tried, images in buttons were smaller than same-sized icons).
>
>
I would think that having color on a few selected icons might still be ok,
but maybe that misses the purpose of symbolic icons...


> So my recommendation would be to leave custom symbolic icons for now
> (except for perhaps looking again at those from the theme, to see if we
> can indeed find appropriate ones for the color selection and swap
> actions), and revisit them after release. Does that make sense?
>
>
Sure, lets do it that way.

Cheers,
Stefan



> Cheers,
> David.
>
> [1]
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dpm/qreator/color-editor/view/99/data/media/color-selection-symbolic.svg
> (despite of the name, I think this icon should be more suitable for the
> 'swap colors' button)
> [2]
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/148955/why-do-the-gnome-symbolic-icons-appear-darker-in-a-running-application/
>
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