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 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnustep mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnustep mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep > > 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 -- Gregory Casamento GNUstep Lead Developer / OLC, Principal Consultant http://www.gnustep.org - http://heronsperch.blogspot.com http://ind.ie/phoenix/
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