Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi everyone, > >> I don't know if we can say this. Only when our Wine-supplied icons are >> appearing near application-supplied icons do we gain some consistency by >> mimicing Windows style, but that consistency is confined to that >> particular app. Most icons the user sees are instead going to be >> compared with the rest of the desktop and its applications, and adopting >> a Tango style rather than a Windows style is the only way to get that >> overall consistency. > >> If we're not careful, Wine apps may continue to stick out rather than be >> just another part of the desktop. > If wine should integrate well with the surrounding Linux desktop, why don't > you use the desktop icon set where possible? By using the Tango icons, wine > applications will still stick out on almost all non-Gnome system (most > notably KDE) as well as those Gnome desktops where the icon set was changed - > that's not what I would call integration. I agree that the Tango icons are > prettier than the one currently used, and as a result an improvement, but > unfortunately they won't fix the "sticking out". > > Kind regards, > Ralf Jung
It's true, not everyone is using Tango, but it's the closest thing we have to a standard. It certainly wouldn't hurt to make Wine compatible with multiple icon sets and then let packagers choose which one to use, so I could provide a Gnome-wine and a KDE-wine and so on. Starting with Tango seems like the best first bet though. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
