On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Gregory Casamento <[email protected] > wrote:
> > > 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. > a similar thing happened with the custom NSSwitchButton NSButtonCell's in DBModeler. IIRC the standard switched on image is not derived from the switched off image, so attempting to take a custom check mark, and compositing it onto the switched off image to create a derived NSSwitchButton looked out of place. IIRC there was a drop shadow on one but not the other or something In DBModeler's case there were at least 2 columns of custom switch buttons, a lock and key for the on variations... I needed a version of the 'on' image, but without the check mark that themes could supply, that i could composite the custom check mark on to.
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