[ubuntu-art] Tango

[volvoguy]

On 10/19/05, Frédéric van der Essen <fred at mentalwarp.com> wrote:

> Have you heard about the Tango Project ?
> they aim at making a consistant and cross desktops icon theme.

Yep. Lofty goal.

> Their current work looks very good, and IMO a project like that is a very good idea.

I only saw bits and pieces so far, as it was /.'ed the day I visited. :o)

> Should we
> - Ignore tango and continue working on Humanity (if there is still work being done on it ) ?
> - creating a tango compatible humanity theme ?
> - converting the tango theme to ubuntu color palette ?
> - using the tango theme as it is ?

The bits I was able to read about it, it didn't look like it fit
entirely with with the "look and feel" goals of Ubuntu (as defined
more by Canonical than the art team at this point). I think it may be
a good source of idea gathering and sharing, but perhaps not
completely signing on to say Ubuntu will use this "Tango Desktop" in
it's entirety. I haven't caught Andrew online in AGES, but as far as I
know, he's still working on the Humanity icons. As far as GTK/Metacity
themes go, I personally think Clearlook will be hard to beat as far as
usability and simplicity goes, but there's always room for more
options. The same goes for colors. In the future I'd rather it be said
that there's a "default Ubuntu color palette", but make a whole lot
more color variations available than the default. I haven't done any
themes yet, but I think right now that means creating a whole new
theme and recoloring the bitmaps by hand. Perhaps when themes are
vector based, infinite color variations of one theme will be possible
without having millions of themes installed.

I guess I'm kinda dodging the issue. :o) FWIW, I emailed the guys and
told them who I was and that I would be keeping a keen eye on their
progress. Just as we borrow bits from Debian, Gnome, art.gnome.org,
perhaps that's the kind of relationship we'll have with the Tango
folks, because I honestly can't see Ubuntu switching it's unique look
over to something standardized like that if it's only for the sake of
aesthetics.

My $.02

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Aaron

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