gimp icon sizes

[justinjamesbrowne@gmail.com]

Hi pepes. I watched a video and managed to increase the fonts in Gimp which on my laptop are way too small.
I did this by altering the GTKRC file. Is there a place in that file to alter the icons too. I can hardly see my brushes and the main tools on the top left are too small as well. I used the icon theme reset to large. It is not large at all and hardly makes any difference. Please help as I would really love to use this software. but its just not pleasing to use.
Thanks JJ

[rich2005]

(02-02-2024, 11:20 PM)justinjamesbrowne@gmail.com Wrote: Hi pepes. I watched a video and managed to increase the fonts in Gimp which on my laptop are way too small.
I did this by altering the GTKRC file. Is there a place in that file to alter the icons too. I can hardly see my brushes and the main tools on the top left are too small as well. I used the icon theme reset to large. It is not large at all and hardly makes any difference. Please help as I would really love to use this software. but its just not pleasing to use.
Thanks JJ

There is a plugin that writes a small gtkrc file to your Gimp profile and supercedes the setting held in the theme file.

Some information about it here: https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-UI-fon...7#pid22487 

That is a python plugin and maybe your version of Gimp does not support python, so the whole of that gtkrc file looks like this.

Code:

gtk-theme-name = "Default"
style "user-font"
{
    font_name="Sans 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
gtk-icon-sizes = "gtk-menu=32,32"

Easy to edit those values to whatever is suitable. I have attached that file zipped. Unzip and put in your Gimp user profile. For linux ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/ Restart Gimp.

...but....

When it comes to the ToolBox icons, if you have already used Edit -> Preferences -> Icon Theme and set the custom size to Huge, that is it. The Gimp devs say that provision for high-resolution displays will be catered for in Gimp 3 using GTK3.