I love this!

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 07:04 Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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