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

[J-R DUBOC]

Hi all,
thank you all for your answers,

> 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.

Can you explain to me what the difference is between the Tango set and
the Gnome version ? How would one contribute to that ? Do we need to
be in contact with the Gnome team ?

>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.

All right, see this is the part that is (to me) not so clear in the
Tango Icon Theme Guidelines (although it might be better suited for
another page on the Tango project website).
The best thing would be to record a step-to-step guide as how to
integrate your icon in the system itself, in other words : how the
heck do I get to see my work on a real desktop interface ?

Thank you again for the hints,



2008/8/9 Hylke Bons <h.bons at student.rug.nl>:
> What's wrong with http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines ?
>
> Hylke
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Ryan Henningsen <xryancat at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   - Show quoted text -
>   On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:46 AM, J-R DUBOC <jr.duboc at gmail.com
>   <mailto: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,
>
>       --
>       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...
>
>   --
>   Ryan Henningsen
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-- 
Jean-Rémy Duboc