Hello all, I see this has already been raised before - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2007-February/003795.html - but I'd like to ask some more questions.
So far the Human iconset is not complete, so it is mixed with icons from the GNOME/Tango/Tangerine iconsets which adhere to the Tango icon theme guidelines - http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines - while the Human iconset does not adhere to these guidelines. This means that there is no consistency between the different iconsets, and I think that there is no consistency between the icons inside the Human iconset either. As was already said before, creating a good and complete iconset takes a long time. Because the Human icons still aren't completed, why even bother? Isn't the Tangerine iconset, which is a modification of the Tango iconset with some "Ubuntufication" like more orange colors, enough to create a different identity/branding for Ubuntu? Tangerine already builds on the far more complete Tango icon set and it's guidelines which has more drive behind it than the Human iconset. Besides that, is there anyone who prefers the Human iconset over Tangerine? The Human icons don't look professional at all, it looks blurry and ugly. From what I understand from previous posts on the mailing list, the only reason the Human iconset was created because sabdfl/Mark Shuttleworth likes them. Of course Mark Shuttleworth is Ubuntu's founder, it's his distro so he decides, and I don't want to say that he has a bad taste. But I'd like to ask Mark Shuttleworth to reconsider the choice of the default iconset. Not based on my personal opinion of how I don't like the Human iconset, but based on the argument of inconsistency, the greater support for the Tango icon theme guidelines, and the greater completeness of the Tango/GNOME iconsets. I also have some suggestions concerning the default GTK theme of Ubuntu. I like all the orange and such, I like the Metaciy theme, but the GTK theme has a rather boring gray color. Possibly, could some brighter sort of grey color be used? Or possibly a more beige/brown color, like in the Gilouche theme - http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=46881 - or a more "Ubuntutified" light orange color - http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=44030 - like in this theme? I think that especially the Gilouche theme (which is used by Novell's distro's) is a lot more attractive than the plain, boring, dull gray while it still looks formal. Why stick with the current color of grey used in the default GTK theme? Last question, why is the Ubuntulooks engine still used? According to the website of the Murrine theme engine - http://cimi.netsons.org/pages/murrine.php - "The Engine is cairo-based, and it's very fast compared to clearlooks-cairo and ubuntulooks (30% faster and more), since I have tried to optimize the code and removed a lot of slow gradients to provide this unique style". Given it's extra features and speed advantage, why not use this theme engine instead of Ubuntulooks? Greetings, Alexander van Loon -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
