Update GTK theme for Windows Install
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Inkscape |
New
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Wishlist
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Bug Description
This is a feature request.
Inkscape obviously uses GTK across all platforms. On Linux, Inkscape will pick up whatever GTK theme is being used and will match the OS look.
On Windows, it just uses the default GTK theme, which basically still looks like Windows 95 -- very blank and not appealing, especially for a graphics design program. Sure, it is possible to change the theme manually, but it takes multiple steps and editing config files. Plus, with all of the themes I've tried, there ends up being graphical glitches after applying the themes -- mostly the text on sliders ends up being white so you can't read them anymore at low slider values. Plus, some of the elements don't position right with some themes that have bigger elements (if I remember correctly from the last time I tried, they had some overlaps).
It might be time to either add a GUI for theme changing, or just update the included theme to more closely match modern windows (probably Windows 10 at this point, especially by the time this gets added).
At a minimum, it might be good to fix why the UI elements have so low visibility with alternate themes.
| Jon Grossart (jon-grossart) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: packaging ui win32 |
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Just testing it out -- another visual issue that happens a lot - the current layer name gets put to a light color that often ends up with light highlighting, making it unreadable.