[Tango-artists] whither addressbook?

[Jon A. Cruz]

On Apr 15, 2006, at 7:53 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote:

> For instance, we also have the tango-icon-theme-extras package, which
> provides all the curreent various iPod icons, as well as a Dell DJ  
> icon.
> Several of the artists are also working on drawing icons for the Art
> Libre set, which is meant for graphics applications. Scribus is  
> already
> using a number of these icons in upstream CVS, and GIMP is not far
> behind either. They're already using a tango-ified app icon, and as  
> soon
> as an entire set of icons for GIMP are finished, all of the icons for
> the tools/palettes/etc..  in GIMP should be Tango style as well.  
> Several
> applications in GNOME are already using Tango style icons for their  
> app
> icons as well, such as Sound Juicer and Dasher. We are even working on
> updating the style in the GNOME Icon Theme, to follow the Tango Style
> Guidelines. It's an amazingly nice jump forward for it, and I can't  
> wait
> until we get it finished and everyone is happily using it.


And here is where Inkscape differs slightly. It's getting  
"ArtLibre'd", but not explicitly "Tangofied".

At the moment it has its own icons, and stored in a different manner.  
*However* I'm changing those to use the standard names plus the  
ArtLibre names. I'm also adding an option to flip which gets  
preference, the system icons or the local icons.

So once and end user get it installed, they can flip to use to  
current default icon theme and if that happens to have Tangofied  
icons, then suddenly Inkscape will become Tangofied. But then if it's  
a different icon theme, Inkscape will use that different theme.

Most importantly this will allow for themes that end users *need* to  
use to be picked up properly. The first one that comes to mind is the  
'Large Print' theme out there used for accessibility. Its icons are  
all large, black and simplified... very non-Tango. However, the  
ArtLibre naming will make it possible for applications to help users  
who need such. (Oh, and even though Inkscape is a graphics app, we do  
have users with those needs asking us to better support plain black  
icons)
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