[Tango-artists] Tryin' to figure out what to do

[Ryan Henningsen]

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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, J-R DUBOC <jr.duboc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
> I'm a newby (sort of : I've been using Ubuntu a little over the past
> three years, but I didn't go that deed into themes management), and
> I'm thinking about maybe helping the Tango project, as I use Inkscape
> a lot and am very interested in interface design.
> I was wondering if you could link me to a couple tutorials/document
> pages that would explain to me how to :
> - design icons and implement theme in a theme (wich image format, how
> to "pack" them, how to install them, on GNOME and KDE)
> - know which tasks are pending for the Tango project (is there an RSS
> feed to subscribe to or something ?)
> - add my own work to the tango project (is there an SVN or CVS system
> in place, what kind of people have access to it, etc.)
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
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> Jean-Rémy Duboc
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Here is the Tango CVS checkout:

cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/tango login
cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs at anoncvs.freedesktop.org:/cvs/tango co tango-icon-theme


The best way to learn is to just view the SVG files and modify them. You can
start by making them different colors and then make new icons based of of
them. You can see how shadows and highlights work. You might also want to
check out the gnome-icon-theme project, which are also styled under the
Tango guidelines.

I don't think their is a set collection of tutorials to design GNOME
icons... They are packaged with the icon-naming-utils to fit with the Gnome
and KDE icon specifications. Then a simple config script is included and
they are archived.

As far as pending designs, I'm not sure if there is anyplace to check. The
Tango set in its current state is pretty complete. Although not as complete
as the Gnome version.

Perhaps we should make a tutorial to help people skilled with graphics and
design to contribute?

Edit: I forgot to send to the main mailing list...

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Ryan Henningsen
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