On 10/19/05, Frédéric van der Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you heard about the Tango Project ? > they aim at making a consistant and cross desktops icon theme.
Yep. Lofty goal. > Their current work looks very good, and IMO a project like that is a very > good idea. I only saw bits and pieces so far, as it was /.'ed the day I visited. :o) > Should we > - Ignore tango and continue working on Humanity (if there is still work being > done on it ) ? > - creating a tango compatible humanity theme ? > - converting the tango theme to ubuntu color palette ? > - using the tango theme as it is ? The bits I was able to read about it, it didn't look like it fit entirely with with the "look and feel" goals of Ubuntu (as defined more by Canonical than the art team at this point). I think it may be a good source of idea gathering and sharing, but perhaps not completely signing on to say Ubuntu will use this "Tango Desktop" in it's entirety. I haven't caught Andrew online in AGES, but as far as I know, he's still working on the Humanity icons. As far as GTK/Metacity themes go, I personally think Clearlook will be hard to beat as far as usability and simplicity goes, but there's always room for more options. The same goes for colors. In the future I'd rather it be said that there's a "default Ubuntu color palette", but make a whole lot more color variations available than the default. I haven't done any themes yet, but I think right now that means creating a whole new theme and recoloring the bitmaps by hand. Perhaps when themes are vector based, infinite color variations of one theme will be possible without having millions of themes installed. I guess I'm kinda dodging the issue. :o) FWIW, I emailed the guys and told them who I was and that I would be keeping a keen eye on their progress. Just as we borrow bits from Debian, Gnome, art.gnome.org, perhaps that's the kind of relationship we'll have with the Tango folks, because I honestly can't see Ubuntu switching it's unique look over to something standardized like that if it's only for the sake of aesthetics. My $.02 -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - http://www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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