On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Ivan Vučica <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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The tango theme looks very nice, indeed.


Guys, just as an aside from looking at the images: It has always been my
concerted belief that the System, home and other "special" icons in
Workspace should be "derived" so as to give a consistent look.   For
instance the system icon should be a combination of the folder icon
supplied by the theme with the GNUstep Icon laid on top.

GC

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