[Tango-artists] Glossy folders

[Tom Harris]

Thanks for your reply. I take your point about find common ground
between styles, but it would be nice if Tango could be the folks to buck
the current glossy trend, and start a fad of their own, for sensible but
attractive icons (which I think is certainly a description that can be
applied to 99% of the current icons). Oh well. I shall go and try my own
hand at making some folder icons. Thank you also for all excellent work
you and everyone else has done so far, and I look forward to future
incarnations of Tango.

Tom.

P.S. Please satisfy my curiosity regarding application icons. Recently
the evolution icon was removed on the basis that applications themselves
should create icons, which I felt made a lot of sense. However, what is
defined as being an application? For example, both Epiphany and gedit
have icons in the current theme.

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 16:50 +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:59 +0000, Tom Harris wrote:
> > Why are the new blue folder icons glossy? I thought that only items
> > that were shiny in real life were meant to be glossy...
> > 
> > "Use glossy reflection only on objects that have a reflective surface
> > in real life (plastic, glass, some metal, et cetera). A paper sheet
> > certainly doesn't have such attribute."
> 
> Short answer:
> Because kde, osx and now even vista people like it that way :).
> 
> Longer answer:
> I haven't seen a glossy sheet of paper, but I did see glossy plastic
> folders of various colors. Even the old grey folder has a glossy
> refrection if look closely. It's not something I like, it's quite
> overused, but Tango is about finding common ground between styles and if
> everybody leans towards colorful glossy folders...
> 
> In addition, folders are highly likely to be customized by vendor. IF
> you prefer the older folders you can do something similar. Check out
> 0.4.0, take the folders and create a theme with only the folders,
> inheriting from Tango.
> 
> cheers
>