It is worth noting that it is technically possible for each user to implement both of these improvements on his own by modifing certain files in his specific Inkscape installation. Therefore, after eliminating saturation and contrast from the UI, it is reasonable to assume that a user can devote his attention more easily to the task at hand.

The users attention should be focused on his/her own artwork, but the human eye is known to focus on high contrasts, both color and value contrasts. Since Inkscape is a tool for creating rich visual content, its own visual appearance should not compete with that content.

Make icons and theme s/w (grayscale) and low in contrast with a neutral base ( meaning the base color is 50% gray ). Simlify both shape and color of current default icon set.Īlso, make Inkscape load a custom, default gtk theme. Improvements Visual Improvements Simplify Icons + Theme Proposal: Note: Every improvement proposition on this page is required to be acompanied with a more or less elaborate, rational explanation. This separation of concerns at the level of development is coherent with the idea of arguing about interactivity and visual style separately.Īs such, both groups deserve special attention and we will categorize our specific improvement propositions accordingly. Those elements provide basic interactivity, while being styleable in size, color, texture and sometimes shape. Most modern user interfaces are comprised of several (mostly) rectangular logical elements (Widgets, Windows, Textboxes, ScrollBars, etc. In general, a user interface is crudely seperable into its visual and its interactive features. Why should we care about investing effort to UI improvement?įirst of all, of course, because we like Inkscape and are passionate about the project, hence it deserves our attention and energy by definition.īut there are also a few more rational points to make about how the user could benefit from UI improvements. Inkscape provides the user with a graphically and feature rich environment for creating visual artwork.

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