Tango is definitely free software!  I'm not sure what the actual license,
though.  A few years ago it was incorporated into the freedesktop.orgeffort (
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library).


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Riccardo Mottola <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 09/12/13 14:26, Stefan Bidi wrote:
>
>> I guess I'll put my 2 cents in...
>>
>> To me, the look itself isn't that outdated. Personally, even on Windows,
>> I use the "Classic" theme because of the well defined edges on GUI
>> artifacts. That said, I do think the default GNUstep theme needs an update.
>>  The gray is too dark, the icons do not follow recent developments, and
>> some GUI artifacts, like the knob, just look weird.  In my opinion, we
>> don't need to re-do the whole thing, just update it and bring it in line to
>> today's monitors (I've heard it said here that the default theme mimics the
>> NeXT theme, and you could adjust the gamma on NeXT monitors but it's not
>> something anyone does today).
>>
>> My suggestions would be:
>> - Lighten the color up a bit.  Like I said, the gray is just too dark
>> compared to what everyone else is doing. See the GTK+ default and Windows
>> Classic themes, like it or not, people accept these as the "default
>> classic" theme for application.
>> - Use the Tango icons.  I know people might not agree with this, but the
>> Tango icons fit better with almost everything else out there and are kept
>> fairly up to date.
>> - Minor updates to some of the images.
>>
>>  I think it is easy to make a "bidi-tango-light" (please come up with a
> better name) theme and add it. Before making something "a default" it
> should exist :)
> Such a theme as you describe should be easy to make with Thematic. Sadly
> it is not (Sleek teaches that).
>
> if you want I can help. What license are the Tango icons? I can start the
> work for you in GAP if you like.
>
>> That's all just my opinion on the issue.  I wouldn't have any time to
>> help, all my spare time goes into corebase and that's already too far
>> behind schedule as it is.
>>
>>  :) yes.. and all the rest of things I do. So I might help here, but
> don't leave me alone when I have a problem.
>
> Riccardo
>
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