[ubuntu-art] Deadline for community art: May 15

[Andreas Nilsson]

Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Tangerine has the advantage of (a) being based on Tango, which starts 
> with SVG's for everything and has design in place, and (b) being 
> developed by folks who work with Gnome and KDE themes regularly so can 
> test it in place.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't believe that Tango has the level of design 
> quality in place that we need for the best theme for Ubuntu. I just 
> don't like the Tango icons. And 22x22 (as well as other decisions) are 
> IMO poor choices.  Tangerine is therefor somewhat limited. Ideally, we 
> want better icons, with a better toolchain process for Human.
First of all, I would like to thank you that both Tangerine and Tango 
was accepted into main.
As I've probably mentioned earlier the guidelines are not set in stone 
in any way and feedback from Canonial  regarding the naming-spec, the 
style guidelines and other stuff is more than welcome. But anyway, I 
hope we can discuss this again further down the road when we don't have 
a deadline a couple of days away.

So, my opinion is that it would be unwise to change default theme so 
close to the release, therefore I say stick to Human for now, as it's 
quite easy to change to Tangerine on a fresh install for those who wish 
to do so.
Glad to hear that so many people like the hard work that have been put 
into tango and tangerine and support the idea of a consistent interface 
for the free desktop!
- Andreas