[Tango-artists] dialog-question and assorted other icons

[Taliessin Penfound]

I made a few modifications based on input and personal whim to my 
Tango-styled icons (esp. the darker borders on the smaller sizes - it is 
an improvement!), and created an icon for my Iomega Mixx MP3 player 
(slightly esoteric, yes, but it'd be right at home in 
tango-icon-theme-extras) and oddly enough, MSIE (I'm a bad bad man).

I also made a few improvement to the webpage I'm using to share them - 
it's been moved to to a more permanent address within my quasi-CMS, at 
http://darkt.net/?page=tango_creations. I've attempted to describe the 
purpose and visual connection of each icon, as well as made the SVGs 
available so that anyone who wanted to use them for one reason or 
another, could. The file naming, metadata, and organization are all 
quite poor, however.

Simon Otter wrote:
> I think they are pretty good although 
> "preferences-desktop-remote-console" isn't really all to convincing. 
> The idea with a cord is good, but the jacket sits so high and it makes 
> it a little bit unrecognizable in small sizes. Try putting the jacket 
> in the middle left side of the globe.
>
> The other ones are good, though I would want the dialog-question to be 
> in some kind of blue or more vibrant colour. I also noticed that the 
> <48px versions need better (darker) outlining. GJ anyway. 
Could you explain which part of the icon is called the jacket? I'm not 
entirely sure of the meaning of the word in this context. It's intended 
as a sort of companion to preferences-desktop-remote-desktop, is that a 
general criticism of the original as well, or of my modification to make 
it more oriented to a remote text console instead of a remote GUI?

I changed my dialog-question to purple, instead of brown, which actually 
seems justifiable (I'm not entirely sure why I picked brown originally):
* Purple's between a "warning" red and a "help" blue
* I think it qualifies as "more vibrant than brown"
* Wikipedia's "color psychology" article suggests that it might be 
appropriate for a function requiring user creativity
* And as SamuelW said, "because there aren't enough purple icons. ^_^"

I also did an alternate take based on Sevenissimo's dialog-question 
(with the triangle and orange color, it reminds me too much of 
dialog-warning). Of course, I'm still open to any and all suggestions 
for improving it, as I should be if I want to push for someone's 
dialog-question to eventually end up in Base.

Jones Lee wrote:
> I love the Firewal Shield icon, they looks very nice indeed. The 
> Bluetooh 22x22 and 16x16 needs tweak because they are very blur.
Tweaked!

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