[ubuntu-art] Firefox Human theme 0.1 released

[Lukas Sabota]

Frank,
The newest ubuntu-artwork provides new back/forward/stop icons.  Are you
going to be incorporating these in your firefox theme?  Or continue with
the tangerine icons?

God bless,
Lukas

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 21:24 +0200, Frank Schoep wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After more than twelve hours of work on it today I'm finally able to release 
> an initial version of my Firefox Human theme. I want to encourage all of you 
> to download it from my webserver (it's less than 350 Kb):
> http://www.ffnn.nl/media/external/ubuntu/firefoxhumantheme/human.jar
> 
> Please install and test it. After downloading the JAR file, you should open 
> the "themes" window in Firefox and drag-n-drop the JAR file into the themes 
> window, confirm the installation and select "Use Theme".
> 
> Restart Firefox and you should be enjoying the latest Tangerine and Tango 
> icons and matching color scheme in all windows (be sure to check the 
> highlight bar in Preferences and the downloads / themes / extensions windows 
> with highlighting).
> 
> I created some really cool buildscripts to automate the theme building, so all 
> change requests are very welcome since I can update the theme without manual 
> intervention. New icons are automatically compiled into the theme.
> 
> This leads me to a few requests I want to do to finish the theme, first of all 
> I'm missing some icons:
> - A neutral bookmarks icon without the "add" star (main toolbar)
> - A neutral bookmarks icon which is opened (main toolbar)
> - A secure / insecure https icon, could be a lock (address bar)
> - A lock icon, possibly the same as above (preferences)
> - A neutral "tab" icon without "add" (preferences)
> - An Add Separator icon (bookmarks window)
> - A "Move" action icon (bookmarks window)
> - A "Rename" action icon (bookmarks window)
> - Two page orientation icons: landscape & portrait (page setup)
> - A Plugin / Jigsaw / puzzle piece icon (extensions)
> 
> I took some liberties in choosing replacement icons for the 0.1 version. I'll 
> be able to create some of these icons myself by editing existing icons, but 
> if they're included in the base icon packages too, that'd be great.
> 
> Besides missing icons, I wanted to point out that the "back" and "forward" 
> arrows at 24x24 are vertically misaligned in the Tangerine package, maybe 
> someone could fix these (all apps have these)?
> 
> I will publish my buildscripts soon, they're very well written and make 
> editing the theme a breeze. I've put the theme under local version control 
> (CVS) so you'll be able to check out any changes I made via ViewCVS later.
> 
> Tomorrow I'll be starting on the real "preview" image (the current one's a 
> placeholder) and finish some of the easy-to edit icons. I'll also create a 
> proper webbased installation routine.
> 
> I'll be looking forward to offers from you all to help out. Let me know if 
> you're interested in contributing something.
> 
> So, enjoy the ride and let me know what you think of it.
> 
> With kind regards,
> 
> Frank Schoep
>