The old bitmap icon theme is kept as "Legacy" but not a priority anymore.
We should avoid visual pollution to make the canvas the focus point and not "shine pretty pixels around" (paraphrasing Jimmac).Ī color vectorial icon theme is still kept as a fallback for people who prefer color icons. The new GIMP preferred style is Symbolic, in particular light icons on dark background, which is the expected style for graphics applications nowadays: toned down for creation needs. But smaller sets of icons are often OK from a single version. people focus on the shapesĢ2:10 Jehan: for symbolic we made the decision not to do size variantsĬonclusion: there may be alternate versions for very big icons, like 128x128, adding details in particular. Jimmac says:Ģ2:09 hinting gets looser as we go highpiĢ2:09 ie "it gets fuzzy" but fewer people care. As it has been noted, scales by multiples keep the icon pixel-perfect, and non-multiple scales are a little blurry but still acceptable (when the original was not already blurry, hence pixel-perfect) on nowadays screens. If the icons are vectorial, the icons have to be drawn pixel-perfect for at least the smaller needed size. If the icons are bitmaps, the icons have to be redrawn, pixel-perfect, for every needed size. The following problems have been raised: New icon themes Pixel-perfection
App icons' sizes and decisions are a mess.
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