Tango Icon Theme

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Broken made a patchto load in blender a set of icons, I made a compilation archived in 7zip or zip for windows

If you create a set of icons you have to put in the directory .blender\icons\ in png format.

To select a set of icon ou have to create or edit a theme, choose “UI and Buttons” and “Icon file” : http://lecocqguillaume.chez-alice.fr/temp/theme.JPG

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Oh yes this patch is cool! When we can have theme fun why not icon fun too :slight_smile:

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Broken’s patch is great. I spent an hour last night working on my icons, and it was so fast and easy to test how they looked in blender. :slight_smile:

Edit: Bah! Was planning to make a build today but couldn’t set up cygwin for some reason. Anyway, I made a modified version of Jimmacs icon set. Changed manipulator and select mode icons. I don’t care for the icon discussion, this is just me playing around. But if you like - great :slight_smile:

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/6268/blenderbuttonsbellorumdc4.png

And while were talking about customization, here’s my theme for download as a .b-file(made for 1152x864):
http://w11.easy-share.com/698807.html

Going to have to try your theme at home Yogyog, but at least we seem to have the same taste - mine’s blue as well :slight_smile:

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Normally there is a place for the sculpt mode icon, after icon ".* "

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That empty spot?
I wonder how additional icons will be handled :slight_smile:

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Yes it’s empty but programmed in source, just wait for an icons :wink:

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Bellorum, your icons are excelent! Very apealling and up-to date looking.

A few minor crits and sugestions… (very minor)

Slightly more contrast on the monkey-head icon (2d row)
A few more colours on the activated texture icon (3d row)

Being able to load your own icon file is a great idea.

I’m still unabe to post new threads at the moment, and as this is vaguely relivent, here’s a printer friendly blender theme for use while making tutorials…

http://yogyog.org/bits/printerfiendly_theme.py

and the theme I use myself

http://yogyog.org/bits/lightblue_theme.py

I would very much like c+c on the printerfiendly theme
as I’m trying to create something useful.

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Thanks! :smiley: I’m thinking most people will think their too much ´candy´ for their taste, though. :rolleyes: It was fun, although a bit tideous work. I can’t imagine how much work Jimmac must have put into his icons. I only modified 7.

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voting for default…

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I’m a real fan of your other iconworks jimmac. And I’ve been waiting for you to do something about the oldish blender icons.

Awesome work as usual jimmac!

For those who doesn’t know. Jimmac’s the creator for most of the default icons in Gnome, OpenOffice and also GIMP.

Can’t be more professional than this. :slight_smile:

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I’ve updated a couple of suboptimal metaphors and added more icons for better coverage. Still a work in progress:

http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/blenderbuttons.png

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Hi jimmac, hope you don’t mind some comments here.
Been trying out your icon theme, and generally speaking I like it… until I went back to my desktop computer (22 inch screen at 1600x1200- and not as sharp as an lcd) and I noticed some issues
some icons are just too low contrast and not different enough looking- the icons are so small (just a fact of blender) that they’re unreadable. An example of this is the show hidden files icon in the file browser; while the ghost metaphor in the original may be questionable, the icon is immeadiatly visible- it just pops out at you. The new icons for this, and the sort by name extension etc icons are so similar, that I have to hunch by the screen and squint to make out what they say. I think loosing the document/paper shape for these icons would be good- we already know we are dealing with files, since this is the file browser, and if we get rid of that shape, each icon can be given a special silhouette, to aid in speedy recognition. What do you think?

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i tried this theme too now that it’s made simple in blender…
and noticed the contrast problem too… on my screen it was because of the theme colors (light brownish) i use… many of the icons were really hard to see. especially the ones that get highlighted when you mouse over them…

here’s my screenshot: http://www.kulma.org/tmp/blscrshot.jpg

maybe these are made for dark themes?

.b

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The set isn’t meant for dark themes specifically. The semi-opaque unfocused icons do pose a problem for backgrounds around 40% lightness. I’ll see about making those B/W. What doesn’t work well either in your case are the shading mode icons as they are close to your selected background hue. I need to add some outlines for those…

Thanks for the feedback guys.

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I use a New Darker Blender Theme i made and the Icons looks Amazing!
Thanks for this Icons!!!

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Raising a topic from the dead…
+1 I also vote for inclusion of these icons as default in the next or 2.5 release. It is amazing how a fresh tango icon theme can brighten up an application, especially whe compared to the almost grayscale icons currently used. It is so much nicer to use now!

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Whoa! I am going to compile immediately :wink:

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Does anybody know how to install these icons in osx?
Where to find this famous .blend directory? (.files are normaly not visible in osx)

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I love the new Icons!
Thanks so much!

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Too nice , where can we DLD more of Em