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

[Petr Tomeš]

Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, GNOME, OpenOffice.org is popular
and successfull open source projects runnable on many platforms and
operating systems. These aren't products of Microsoft, there are de
facto fully independent and unrelated on Microsoft, but all of them
use yellow folders by default artwork. Blue Tango icons are
inconsistent with all of them.

Petr

2006/2/26, Bodo Tasche <bodo at wannawork.de>:
> I don't think that "M$ does this, so we have to do this" is a good
> argument. "Son, we have used Horses for many Generations, everyone uses
> them, so why do you want to use this modern automobile crap" ;)
>
> And I think that "creating a consitent experience" does not mean that it
> has to be consistent with Windows or KDE or whatever is around. Its goal
> is to create a Icontheme that can be used in OpenSource Software (mainly
> Gnome and KDE) without too much trouble. At least that's what I think (I
> am not an team member) *g*.
>
> OK, M$-Users might have some problems, but I don't think Users are too
> dumb to see that blue Folders are Folders ;).
>
> Bodo
>
> Petr Tomeš wrote:
> > 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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