Eckhard M. Jäger

Greyscale/ color icon theme for GIMP

Sunday, June 24, 2012 8:05:12 PM

greyscale, icon, GIMP, theme, color, space

At familie redlich :systeme we work with Photoshop on Mac and GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu Linux. One detail i love on Photoshop is they greyscale icons at the toolbox that get colored on mouse over or when you activat a tool.
So i figured out how to bring this to GIMP and create a theme called ProGimp:

Download the GIMP icon theme it and extract it to GIMP user directory at ~/.gimp-2.8/themes/ . The theme gives GIMP a much more professional look and is space optimized too

BTW: The nice splash screen that is included is made by Deburger

UPDATE 120630
I fixed the greyscale icon problem in dialogues (now they appear in color again) and i minimized the ruler space. You can download the updated theme here.

Simple Desktop WallpapersPimp the Bird for Ubuntu

Comments

Unregistered user # Tuesday, June 26, 2012 1:24:08 PM

O_kut writes: The theme is fine, but there is just one thing that (I suppose) was forgotten accidently. Partly, the icons of the menu items (e.g. under Colors) are greyscaled too (except for some items) but they don't get colored on mouse over. Or after opening the dedicated dialog (e.g. for Colorize) the icons shown on the dialog are also greyscaled whereas I would show them colored.

Unregistered user # Wednesday, June 27, 2012 11:05:04 AM

jEsuSdA 8) writes: Your theme inspired me to write a post about some Gimp icon Themes (yours included): http://www.jesusda.com/blog/index.php?id=484 Great work! ;)

Eckhard M. Jägerarea42 # Wednesday, June 27, 2012 1:04:20 PM

@O_kut writes: Thanks for the hint i will fix it. Meanwhile i did some other small optimizations. A new version will be available soon.

@jEsuSdA Great blog post! But please do not host the theme yourself. So users can't get the updates.

Unregistered user # Thursday, July 5, 2012 4:18:19 PM

Joe Fidler writes: Nice theme - thank you this.

Unregistered user # Friday, July 27, 2012 12:03:54 PM

Rolf writes: I like this theme! The installation process and the look while working with it can be seen in Episode 182 of Meet the GIMP! ( http://blog.meetthegimp.org/episode-182-a-special-day/ ).. I'll keep it and perhaps look into tweaking it a bit.