[Tango-artists] Glossy folders

[Jakub Steiner]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 15:06 +0000, Tom Harris wrote:
> 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.

Tango is not about creating a new, unique look. Tango is about finding a
common style ground to make it easy for ISVs to target the "free
desktop". It tries to solve the problem of inconsistent look on the free
desktop, or the need to ship multiple icon themes for an ISV depending
on what desktop his app is ran from.

> 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.

The key thing about the Tango project is the style guideline.
Application developers have a document to refer to when designing their
artwork. Application icons should be shipped with applications. We don't
intend to have an all-encompassing theme. Tango-icon-theme aims to be
only the most common set of reusable icons. And also the testbed of the
style. The actual theme is not as important as the style guide or the
common naming scheme. 

cheers

-- 
Jakub Steiner <jimmac at ximian.com>