Re: [Tcllib-devel] FamFam icon sets as packages - Tklib candidate - Requesting Review

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Andreas Kupries wrote:
>
>  From the quick look ICONS has at least one thing Jeff wants and I had not
> cared about in my famfam packages ... Multiple themes, and standard icon name
> s across themes.

Some other notes:

The fd.o spec classifies icons by size (12x12, 16x16, 32x32, 36x36, etc...);
there can be multiple versions of a single icon at different sizes.
I find it more useful to classify them by "context", i.e.,
icons for menus, for buttons, for toolbars, for dialog boxes, etc., ...
(This fits in nicely with Oakley's "Actions").

I've also found it useful to have variants based on state; for instance
a toolbar icon might have a grayscale variant for when it's disabled
and a brighter variant for when it's active.  (AIUI, Qt and Gtk+
manage this programmatically.  Tk can do this to a certain degree --
autostippling images when disabled, f'rinstance -- but the results
aren't ideal.)


--Joe English