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 To me, the look itself isn't that outdated.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 > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/discuss-gnustep<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep> >
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