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

[Simon Otter]

Petr Tomeš wrote:

>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:
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>>
>>>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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>>>>>
>>>>>          
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I agree, blue folders are inconsistent. My opinion is that we could have 
some compromise, for example the coffee-coloured
folders that is default with gnome is in my opinion very easy to 
recognize as folders. And I use Windows almost solely for
desktop work. The blue folders doesnt feel as folders at all, just look 
at the real life equivalent, how often are they blue?

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