new icones

[Torsten Rahn (KDE)]

On Tuesday, 5. September 2006 13:48, Casper Boemann wrote:
> What I just wanted to say is that doing a change now into 1.6 and changing
> again in 2.0 is not very consistant. We should not do this without
> consideration.

Better toolbar icons are definetely an important issue that shouldn't be 
postponed as good looks is especially important for an application that tries 
to advertise to graphics designers & artists. Our target users are really 
picky about the looks of an application they are using. They simply won't 
like to use it unless the appearance doesn't look as professional as the 
functionality behind. 
The toolbar icons that we currently have are an improvement over the previous 
ones, but they are still severiously lacking compared to the ones that have 
been posted a few days ago.

My bet is that 2.0 will be about a year after 1.6, so that's a pretty long 
time. And given that the icon metaphors will still be identical I don't see 
any problem there either.
If this was about the application icon I would agree with you, that changing 
it too often is a valid concern. However with toolbar icons this isn't as 
much of a problem - especially taking the quality improvement into account. 

Torsten

> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:31, Sander Koning wrote:
> > krita at ronanzeegers.com wrote on 2006-08-19 13:55 +0200 regarding new 
icones:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I've made some new icones for Krita. It's not finished yet but the
> > > spirit/style is there...
> > >
> > > http://www.ronanzeegers.com/krita-ui/Krita-ConceptDesign-V1.png
> > >
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > > Ronan.
> >
> > Hi Krita devs,
> >
> > After a ping from Torsten, I thought I'd give these some more attention.
> > Are there possibilities to include these in the 1.6 release already?
> > (Yes, I know, short time, but, quoting Torsten: "This is definetely an
> > important issue that shouldn't be postponed as good looks is especially
> > important for an application that tries to advertise to gfx designer")
> >
> > If not, I would like to press using them (perhaps a bit restyled if need
> > be) as soon as possible anyway. Boudewijn already stated before that he'd
> > like to see clear monochrome icons for Krita, and these are quite
> > intuitive.
> >
> > As for Ronan: have you played with them some more in the meantime?
> >
> > Cheers,