Comment 34 for bug 312993

Guillermo and manzur,
I don't want to open/join a discussion about beauty and usability and which should be preferred over the other, mainly because also if we agreed that beauty should have precedence, we would then have to decide which "beauty": mine, yours, his/her, pluto's? I hope that none of you consider his/her aesthetics parameters as absolute and undoubtely true over all other different (and trust me: there are a lot!); in the past this also led to wars...
I don't even want to stop a change that could please a lot of people, and I don't even care if it will: if so, good; if not, a lot of complaints will come out and then programmers will decide what to do; if not and no complaints, good too: it would mean that's something people don't care so why wasting time on it? That's democracy.
I find wonderful that users can express their opinions to programmers (not so unusual) and that programmers take them into consideration (pretty unusual) and modify their work in response to them (strongly unusual).
In conclusion: do what you think is good. If you want to do even better, let me change the theme (now I can't: I had to use an older SVN with various old-already-fixed bugs to test the two over there) so I can choose the one I prefer.

Guillermo,
I prefer the current default theme because it's better defined and schematic.
See the attached picture: icons have a darker border and less particulars so it's easier to "understand" them. My eyes have to "work more" to visually decode the modified theme because there are more colours and less contrast. For example, take the small locks: in the upper bars: the upside "U" (don't know how to call it in english) is a simple black path in the current theme and a "wide" coloured area with a not as well defined darker border in the reworked one. If it's rendering is acceptable in the bottom bar where the lock is bigger, isolated and directly on a gray background, the same can't be said in the upper bar where it appears on the two cyan backgrounds, it's smaller and the lack of dark borders on the small squares around it makes the whole icons appearance look unfocused.
These considerations can be applied on other cases in the same way.
So, my (lazy) eyes prefere less-fatiguing-looking icons and my head prefers when my eyes don't complain, so I can use Inkscape for hours without having to finish with a headacke :)

manzur,
I hope it's clear that I'm expressing my feelings and my opinion and it's not important if someone agrees or not. I don't need to be convinced and I don't want to convince anybody. I'm simply answering to Guillermo's question and ah, thanks to him for asking. :)

About the lack of come icons in the attached image: I copied 'default-icons-reworked.svg' under a SVN20697 tree on /share/icons, renamed it to 'icons.svg' and started Inkscape. Am I doing something wrong? If I do the same under a recent SVN tree, all icons appear corrupted. That's why I ask for a themeability improvement before changing the default theme. Or if I'm doing something wrong please tell me so I can have it work.

Thanks for reading and sorry if it was so long...