Icon theme

[mangecoeur]

Firstly, hello spyder community!

I've just started playing around with the spyder codebase on my Mac to
see if I couldn't iron out some of the mac-specific kinks, and i
thought it would be fun to neaten up the icon theme a little - i've
been swapping out icons here and there to try and smarten it up a
little, mostly using icons from the Oxygen and Tango icon themes.

Also, in osx (and i think gnome now) it's not recommended to put icons
in the menus for common tasks, so i removed them.

Anyway I was just wondering if anyone would be interested in taking a
look at the changes when they're done - i could probably just post a
zip file rather than mess with mercurial branches etc...
(Incidentally, one very nice feature of github is how easy it is to
play with a private fork of a project and merge back the changes that
are worthwhile!)

[anatoly techtonik]

Hello mangecoeur,

.zip is not as interesting as screenshots. =) But everybody is surely interested to see how a Spyder could look like with a bit of design guidelines. Tango icons are in public domain, so there is no legal obstacles in distributing them with Spyder either. http://tango.freedesktop.org/

Perhaps you'd also get ideas how to improve themes in Spyder, make them easier to create and share without sacrificing security. I once thought about removing all icons for actions that I use from keyboard shortcuts. Another idea was about 'clean start mode', where you are present with a blank window and an interactive guide that introduces editor features and allows to select or remove them. We could then even collect the stats about what elements of interface are really useful.

[Dave Hirschfeld]

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[Pierre Raybaut]

I would also be interested in seeing some screenshots :)

Apart from Spyder's application icon itself, almost all icons are
built with .png images. Using icons from a project like Tango would be
interesting from this point of view: we could at last replace all .png
icons by .svg icons (which may be resized at will).

-Pierre

2012/2/20, Dave Hirschfeld <nov...@gmail.com>:

[mangecoeur]

Hey, that's already much more response than i expected :) I will get
some screenshots sorted when I can, but first there's something i need
to know:
I can go with icon's from the Tango set or from the Oxygen set. Tango
will fit in better with Gnome/Ubuntu systems, Oxygen with KDE (and
arguably Mac) systems. So I was wondering what the more popular
desktop is in this community?

As for SVG icons, i'm actually not 100% convinced: Often pixel-
accurate icons look better than scaled SVG (especially at small
sizes). PNGs are also faster to display (though i don't think that
would really be noticable)

P.S. Windows doesn't really have a unified visual theme so they'll
have to take what they get :P

On Feb 21, 9:55 am, Pierre Raybaut <pierre.rayb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would also be interested in seeing some screenshots :)
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> Apart from Spyder's application icon itself, almost all icons are
> built with .png images. Using icons from a project like Tango would be
> interesting from this point of view: we could at last replace all .png
> icons by .svg icons (which may be resized at will).
>
> -Pierre
>

> 2012/2/20, Dave Hirschfeld <novi...@gmail.com>:
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> > D

[mangecoeur]

Right, so in the end i decided to use the Faenza icon theme as a base
(with a few additions of my own). This theme contains mostly
monochrome icons for toolbar actions. It looks good on mac and should
do on ubuntu too - in fact many people are using Faenza already as
their theme.

So here's a screenshot:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6613592/spydlib.png

To get this to work I also had to make a few changes to the code, so
getting this isn't just a question of copy-pasting folders. I changed
a bunch of image names to better match gnome/freedesktop conventions,
which should make swapping icons easier in the future.

[mangecoeur]

Further update: the code is available in my personal branch on google
code, if anyone would like to test it:

https://jon.cham...@code.google.com/r/jonchambers3001-personal/