[Tango-artists] New size proposal 32x32

[William Szilveszter]

I was at first not fond of the missing 32x32 icons in the current Tango 
theme. Over time I found it rather nice and grew comfortable with the 
current sizes.

I would like to see the removal of that size from programs and Linux in 
general. I doubt that will ever happen, but I am personally not for 
promoting the use of that size. Tango should sway design and if enough 
work is put into it, can become a uniform way of developing graphical 
entities for the desktop (ranging from the desktop itself to the 
programs that run on it).

I personally have a vision of pixel perfection for the desktop, but for 
those of you familiar with the gperfection "campaign," I am sure that 
was quite apparent by now.

I would like Tango to "opt out" of the 32x32 size and hope that in doing 
so, we can push change in the different programs out there for Linux in 
general.

On a side note, I am curious why the 22x22 was selected over 24x24?

Regards,

Will

Jakub Steiner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> today Lapo has again brought up [1] something I've been thinking about a
> couple of times. In the style guidelines we defined three basic sizes. 
>
> A scalable art is drawn on a 48x48 pixel grid and was meant to be used
> anywhere else than 16x16 and 22x22. However in practice the often used
> 32x32 lacks the crispness of Tango (TM). 32x32 is used heavily on SLED
> for example - the menu slab (or the panel menu in SUSE),  the app
> browser, the control center, YAST. It's also used on Windows
> extensively.
>
> What do you guys think about adding an optional 32x32 bitmap size?
>
> The disadvantage of course is having to maintain another size. Creating
> 32x32 out of 48x48 scalable is a matter of scaling down and
> repositioning elements a bit. Yet there's administrative overhead too
> (Makefiles, CVS...). Lapo Calamandrei has volunteered to maintain 32x32
> for tango base.
>
> cheers
>
> [1] - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bat/tango/tango-icon-theme.tar.bz2
>
>