[Breeze] [Bug 369614] New: Inkscape Icons are hard to distinguish and break common standards

[unfa via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369614

            Bug ID: 369614
           Summary: Inkscape Icons are hard to distinguish and break
                    common standards
           Product: Breeze
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Mint (Ubuntu based)
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Icons
          Assignee: visual-design at kde.org
          Reporter: unfa00 at gmail.com
                CC: kainz.a at gmail.com

I'm using Mint 18 KDE 5 64-bit.

1. The Color Picker icon resembles a Blur Tool icon from GIMP - why break the
convention of using an eyedropper symbol?

2. Layer stack - layer visibility icon - the standard for this is an
open/closed eye symbol. The current icon represents stack of layers, and become
crossed over when a layer is hidden - please get back to eye symbol.

3. Spiral tool icon - it has a strange double edged path drawn there? Why not a
single-edged but maybe a wider stroke instead?

4. Path corners and endings icons - again, the double-edge of the drawn curvers
make it unreadable, also the knee is very small, I can hardly see any
difference between the corner type icons. The differences are hardly visible.

5. Bounding box snapping modes icons - they are readable, but also the
differences are minute and very hard to notice at first glance. The green
square is so tiny and the color blends with the bright background making it
difficult to spot. (that's also a problem I have with Synaptic icons used for
package state (Installed/Updatable/Install/Update/Remove etc. - they differ so
slightly I need to stare for 2 seconds each time to know if a package is
already installed or not.)

I have many years of experience working with Inkscape and it's an essential
part of my daily job but this icon set makes me feel like I'm just making my
first steps. The usability was sacrificed for aesthetics in my opinion, and my
productivity is badly reduced because I can't recognize the tools and buttons
that were always there.

For example GIMP installed and is using it's own icon set - and I have no
problem with that. But I can't force Inkscape to fall back to the default icon
set and that's really frustrating, especially when some tools have been given
icons that break standards so baldy like the eyedropper replaced with an ink
droplet. I  know it looks cool, but it makes me work 5 times slower.

Reproducible: Always


Actual Results:  
An experienced user feels lost in the Inkscape GUI, becasue of the new icon
set, not resembling the standard set.

Expected Results:  
The Inkscape icons may be stylized t fit the overall system theme, but without
altering them beyond recognition.

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