Inkscape

Toolbar style should go with the desktop style

Bug #170424 reported by Dornelf
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

I wish the gui would fit better to my desktop. In my
case it is GNOME and the GUI of inkscape looks very
different from that of other applications, which also
use gtk2 (see screenshot). The icons do not look like
the used gtk-stock-icons, toolbars seem to have some
internal drawing problems with the theme
(bluecurve-crystal), size of toolbars is different and
so on. Abiword (which wants to be a
not-only-GNOME-app, too) for example does it better. I
think this look and feel is an important point, because
it is a part of the consistence concept in GNOME and
other desktop environments. Newbies AND advanced users
will benefit from a consistant GUI.

Nevertheless, respect to Your excellent work and thanks.

using inkscape v0.39 on SuSE 9.1

Tags: ui
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Dornelf (dornelf) wrote :
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Horkana-users (horkana-users) wrote :

Even if Inkscape implemented the freedesktop.org icon
specification (which of course it should eventually get around
to doing) you would still see lots of "non-standard" icons
showing through because Inkscape needs icons that do not
have any corresponding stock icons.

The only correct solution to this problem is to implement the
Freedesktop.org Icon specification, so if there is already a
bug or request that covers that I would have to close this as
a duplicate (I'll get back to you if I find anything)

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Dornelf (dornelf) wrote :

I see no problems with "non-standard" icons, which have been
designed especially for Inkscape. But in comparsion to other
exsisting apps like Abiword or Gnumeric (which also use
"non-standard" icons), Inkscape looks not that well
integrated to my/the Desktop, means (for example) different
icons for standard tasks like "new/open/save document".

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Horkana-users (horkana-users) wrote :

sorry I was not clearer,
the reason that Inkscape does not fit in better for the stock
icons like New/Open/Save is that the icons are all hardcoded.

For inkscape to be able to switch those icons to match the
current theme would require implementing the freedesktop.org
Icon specification. Other applications get this for free but
Inkscape has inherited custom widgets and does not.

Hope that is clearer.

Peter Lewerin (vermeil-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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Tom Davidson (tjd-mit) wrote :

Inkscape does now seem to use stock icons where appropriate (see screenshot). Can this bug be closed as fix released, or are there remaining issues with toolbar icons?

Changed in inkscape:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Tom Davidson (tjd-mit) wrote :
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Dornelf (dornelf) wrote :

Bug closed as fix released

Changed in inkscape:
assignee: jon-joncruz → tjd-mit
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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Tom Davidson (tjd-mit) wrote :

Dornelf, glad that this bug was fixed! Reassigning to 'nobody', since I didn't make the fixes, just triaged the bug.

Changed in inkscape:
assignee: tjd-mit → nobody
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