toolbar icons should have distinctive shapes

[Jeff Fortin Tam]

The current toolbar icons pretty much all look alike, they have almost the same shapes. A simple fix is to change them so that they don't all have this "sheet of paper/list of tasks" drawing in the background, and make the actual distinctiveness (ex: the green check sign, or the stopsign, or whatever) more proeminent.

See the "Make Icon Silhouettes Distinct" section in http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/icons-design.html.en

If your action icons have source SVG files (didn't see any), I could attempt fixing this myself if you agree.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I tend to agree. Even the app icon could be improved - it looks quite similar to just a clipboard icon. Something with a big checkbox and green arrow or similar might be clearer.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Maybe we should ask some popular blog for proposals: they are usually pretty nice. Should I?

Something like http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/gedit-want-new-logo.html

[Jeff Fortin Tam (kiddo)]

Luca, I will be glad to fix your icons if you provide me the SVG source files.

Or, even better/simpler, you could simply use standard stock GTK icons for this:
- gtk.STOCK_NEW for creating a new task
- gtk.STOCK_OK for marking a task as "done"
- gtk.STOCK_CANCEL for marking a task as "not to be done anymore"

And thus it will be better integrated (theme-able), etc.

[Izidor Matušov (izidor)]

Moved over to Github: https://github.com/getting-things-gnome/gtg/issues/44