[SOLVED!] Ugly icons in GTK-3 apps.

[Member wildstar84]

I upgraded GIMP from v2.8 to v2.10 and now the icons are really ugly. I’ve been seeing this as apps such as this convert from GTK-2 to GTK-3, so it’s “theme-related” (SEE attached images for the DIFFERENCE). Here’s my GTK-3 config (~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini:

[Settings]
gtk-button-images=1
gtk-menu-images=1
gtk-enable-event-sounds=1
gtk-enable-input-feedback-sounds=1
gtk-xft-antialias=1
gtk-xft-hinting=1
gtk-xft-hintstyle=hintfull
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true
gtk-fallback-icon-theme=gnome  <====== I suspect this is the ugly icon theme, since I doubt "hicolor" has all the icons needed for GIMP, etc.??
gtk-icon-theme-name=hicolor    <====== Changing this does not affect GIMP, et. al. (see comment above)
gtk-font-name=Sans 8

1) Can anyone tell me how to select and use a better “default” icon-set for GTK-3 apps?!

2) The settings.ini file contains no theme name, just “gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=true” What is the “default” theme used and where is this set/configured?

3) In a related matter, anyone know how to pick colors, particularly BACKGROUND? Pretty much all GTK-3 themes have either light or dark grey for background. 🙁

Thanks,

Jim

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[Moderator caprea]

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Yep, I’ve also noticed the “ugly” icon theme in gimp after the upgrade, but I think this is not in any way related to the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
The developers of gimp changed the default icon style
https://gui.gimp.org/index.php/Icon_themes_workgroup#Preferred_style
I just changed it in gimp under edit-Preferences-Interface-IconTheme to the Legacy , it’s also possible to change the theme to System.

(By the way, did anyone with testing-repos manage to have gimp and mypaint together installed ?)

[Member wildstar84]

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FIXED! THAT was the hint I needed, so I fixed it in GIMP!

Thanks, Caprea!

Jim

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