Hi all!
a lont time a go (at least a year, perhaps more) somebody suggested that
he wanted a Tango theme. Perhaps it was Niels or Wolfgang, I don't remember.
I started working on it, but never announced anything because it looked
utterly incomplete. Tango is not about your "controls", that is button
or menu look, but it strives to standardize the icon look.
The tango project has a reference icon set, but then many derived from
it, including Gnome.
The GS standard theme can essentially provide images to customize
controls (buttons, bars) and "common" images (folders, images for GUI
panels like open&save). Everything else uses the icons provided by the
Applications, thus the Tango theme looked awful: GWorkspace results
half-themed, because it uses a lot of common images, but any other app
looked the same as before.
Now in Dublin I exposed this issue and Richard started implementing a
way to to provide named images also for specific applications. Now that
opens doors!
Now application icons can be styled (thus e.g. system utilities can have
a standardized look) as well as things like "new document" inside a
certain application.
To test things, I enhanced the Tango theme a little bit (available
inside GAP among the theme bundles
Here a screenshot.
- (new) SystemPreferences icon is "themed" with the tango preferences
icon: seen also in GWorkspace berfore launching
- (new) Application themed, GSPdf shows "themed" back/forward and zoom
buttons
- (new) Terminal has themed application icon, as can be seen in app-icon
- lighter color scheme to match Tango style
- desktop, folder and standard document icon in matching style
Riccardo
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