rzan...@fastmail.fm wrote:
Hi!
> As for Bruno's suggestions I think that one should do reasonable
> requests or at least help out a little (draw some icons yourself if you
> think they are so important, I personally don't care about that, I run
> scid from the terminal 8) ). I believe that changing the look and feel
> of scid is asking to move from tk to something else and that is one
> major request.
Not really. You can actually improve the look quite a bit with a new set
of icons. Point is that the current set is stored as GIF internally and
thus you're limited in colours and you dont't have real transparency.
This leads to a bunch of icons not looking to nice. Today, we could use
png icons with real alpha, provided that a certain tk lib is available
(which is the case on any Linux/Unix, Mac and Windows these days) and
you can improve the look quite a bit. See e.g. the icons used in FICS
window. Or compare the piece sets Merida and Merida 1/2.
However, we don't have better icons. I'm the wrong one to draw them
(they'd be even worse than the current ones) and we would need quite
some specialised icons so you can not just reuse the usual say gnome
stock icons which are available in decent quality. (I was lucky to find
some usable ones there for the CC window, but there're no suitable ones
for the general icon bar :(.
Still: and here I'm again back at Brunos point. If the icons are really
ugly it is very simple to replace them by improved versions. Its a piece
of manual work, but I'd even invest the time here myself IF I had better
ones. So, if someone has a set of better icons in the requested size
drop us a note and it could be done.
And again to Brunos point: I still disagree with his major points
resulting from a wrong understanding of some essential things. But for
the artwork I agree, it can be done better and its not a technical issue
but lack of decent artwork.
So if we have some designer here, please come up with improved versions!
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