[Tango-artists] Folder icon should have more suitable colour (yellow)

[Petr Tomeš]

2006/2/26, Bodo Tasche <bodo at wannawork.de>:
> I like the blue ;). And blue Folders are used on many Systems. E.g. KDE
> and MacOS. So if you want to have a consistent User experience you have
> to compromise. You take some stuff from Gnome, some from KDE, some from
> other parts. That's the way it goes.

I very like Tango set blue icons excepted. I underestand of
compromise, but I am still convinced this compromise went wrong
direction. Almost all of applications listed below are used by much
more users than KDE and Mac OS X together. I think this is strong
argument to consider, but I will respect any *discussed* conclusion.

Thank you.

Petr Tomeš

>
> And myself, as a Mac-Developer, wouldn't use yellow Foldes in my
> Software because it would not fit ;).
>
> Bodo
>
> Petr Tomeš wrote:
> > Hello,
> > "The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user
> > experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user
> > interfaces." But this user experience is not consistent due to
> > representation of folder colour (now inshades of blue).
> >
> > Folder in shades of yellow colour is standard-default representation on:
> > GNOME (since 2.0 - June 2002)
> > OpenOffice.org (since fist builds - 2001)
> > Mozilla Thunderbird (since 0.1 - July 2003)
> > Mozilla Firebird/Firefox (since 0.6 - May 2003)
> > Microsoft Windows (since Windows 3.11 - December 1993)
> > Microsoft Office (since 7.0 - August 1995)
> >
> > Yellow folder icons has been familiar to most users of leading Open Source
> > projects for past several years and even to most computer users for
> > more than 10 years. Please consider suitable change in Tango icon set.
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Bugreport: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5863
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