Re: Revamping knob for stretch icons

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno gio, 27/10/2005 alle 16.25 +0100, Calum Benson ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:56 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 12:32 +0200, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > > Hei! we are still using the same knob from Eazel days.
> > > 
> > > Why don't use the attached one? Yeah, it's 10x10 instead 8x8, but
> > > 1280x1024 is the usual screen resolution now, I think we can scale it
> > > up.
> > 
> > I agree on the icon size. Its sort of hard to hit them on high
> > resolution, and the larger size doesn't hurt for smaller resolution.
> > 
> > However, I'm not sure on the color change. Does the green really go well
> > with the other colors in use? I'm no graphics artist, but it does seem
> > to well, stick out a bit.
> 
> Shouldn't we be ditching the pixmap-based handles anyway and draw
> something that picks colours from the current theme?  If you're using a
> high contrast theme, you don't want to be resizing things with a green
> handle.  Likewise, if you're using Large Print, you'll probably want to
> see something that's a lot bigger than if you weren't.

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157271
Latest patch from Matthias makes the knob icon themeable. 

> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>