Can you link the icon set design style guide for people?
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 10:39 AM Jehan <je...@girinstud.io> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> On 2015-11-10 17:36, Jehan wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Some time ago, Alex Prokoudine played with symbolic icons from the
> > GNOME project
> > (https://plus.google.com/+AlexandreProkoudine/posts/LP1pWr7YEgA). This
> > kickstarted a discussion about new (potentially default, though
> > existing ones should also stay) themes for GIMP, one with light
> > background, one with dark background.
> >
> > Then a contributor started working
> > (
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2013-October/msg00020.html
> )
> > from this base to create new themes from these monochrome icons.
> > See http://www.jesusda.com/files/symbolic-gimp.7z (dark icons)
> > And http://www.jesusda.com/files/symbolic-gimp_light.7z (light icons)
> >
> > We would be happy to finalize such themes and include them in GIMP
> > when they are considered finished. I've encountered some issue having
> > them work on the dev version of GIMP which uses now icon themes
> > instead of including the icons from the gtkrc file (basically it seems
> > any theme of GIMP using this method to change icons will be broken by
> > GIMP 2.10). Unfortunately I cannot make the time to try and understand
> > what is the problem since it's not my highest priority in GIMP.
> > If anyone is interested in the projects, know well theming and icon
> > themes and can make such a theme working with GIMP (dev version), we
> > welcome contributions. This could (should IMO!) still make it to GIMP
> > 2.10 if some people are into this.
> >
> > Scl also created a wiki page when we first started discussing
> > integrating it into GIMP:
> > http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Specs:UI_Theme (on the main wiki, not
> > the GUI wiki, it would be good if both wikis were merged!).
> >
> > Just throwing this here, hoping some people are interested to
> > contribute.
>
> Ok so we had a contributor who fixed GIMP to select icon themes. As I
> thought, the problem of icon themes was lying within GIMP, which was not
> able to select new icon themes. This is now patched in master (more work
> is undergoing).
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=759105
>
> Based on this, I have added all the icons from Jakub/Barbara/jEsuSda in
> a new theme which will be automatically installed with GIMP and can be
> chosen in the preferences.
> You can test to build this by checking out the branch origin/symbolic.
>
> There is still no dark theme, but this is only a detail and will be
> extremely easy to add now.
> What misses is that we are missing 49 icons (many are the same in
> various sizes, so that's less).
>
> Who would be interested to contribute new icons?
> Only requirements is accepting the GPL v3 license and following the icon
> set design style.
> Also if you could work with a SVG source and providing these too, rather
> than working with bitmap sources.
> Thanks!
>
> Jehan
>
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