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

[Andreas Nilsson]

Folders seems to come in all kind of shades these days.
http://images.google.se/images?svnum=10&hl=sv&lr=&client=firefox&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial&q=plastic+folders&btnG=S%C3%B6k
Blue is nice because it is the color the largest number of people like, 
second runner up is red (if I recall my design classes correctly). There 
are lots of color-variations for the tango-folders popping up on 
gnome-look and similar sites, so I hope all those that wants another 
color for their folders can find what they are looking for there.
Now, let's focus on the important stuff! :)
- Andreas



Daniel Schierbeck wrote:
> I of course didn't mean a screaming yellow, rather the old paperish 
> yellow-brown color I'm sure you all know. Find an old school folder 
> and look at it. Does that scream WARNING in your face?
>
> Bodo Tasche wrote:
>> From a Usability-Perspective Yellow is not a good choice for 
>> Folder-Items. Yellow is a Warning-Color and should be used accordingly.
>>
>> And I know that Mozilla uses Yellow as Default and is not M$, but 
>> this doesn't relative my argumen. There is not a good reason to do 
>> something, because someone does it too. Blindly following some people 
>> is not best practice.
>>
>> Bodo
>>
>> Am 26.02.2006 um 20:51 schrieb Daniel Schierbeck:
>>
>>> I must admit that I too feel that the yellowish folder is the most 
>>> old-skool - the other transparent or colored ones just look like, 
>>> well, cheap plastic lookalikes.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
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