[Tango-artists] oxygen

[Eric Larson]

Hi, 

On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 11:05 +0100, jimmac at novell.com wrote:
> >From the /. department...
> 
> A new website for the new KDE icon theme is up at
> http://oxygen-icons.org. The good news is that it's in fact closer to
> the tango style than the crystal icons (note the inner stroke, yay!),
> and that they are doing at least toolbar-sized versions in addition to
> the biggies.
> 
> The bad news is they went for the document-sheet for all mimetypes
> metaphor.

Have we done usability testing on this aspect? I have been playing with
KDE lately (I haven't looked at it in a very long time) and the
document-sheet based icons really do not provide a clear visual cue as
to what the icon expresses. I say this because it seems worth while to
get test data on this and (assuming my assumption is correct) mention
the results to the Oxygen developers so they might consider changing it.
If they are interested in changing it, it may be a good way to offer
collaboration between tango and oxygen. Maybe Oxygen is a 'distribution'
of tango (uses mostly tango icons and fills in the current blanks in
tango with custom icons). Just thinking aloud here.

Eric