[ubuntu-art] hardy gtk theme

[Corey Woodworth]

I agree about Tango. It's nice and all, but I want something more detailed,
realistic, and well, different. I think working off the Oxygen theme
wouldn't be a bad idea since there will already be quite a lot work done on
it. Mime types and actions would already be completed. We'd mostly just have
to make gnome application icons.

I like the idea of monochrome status icons as well. If we start a new theme,
we could make the 32x32 or 48x48 icons and up very detailed SVGs that would
rival Leapord's new 512x512 icons. and everyhing a lower resolution than
that monochrome. (just a thought).

One icon set I tend to use now and again is the Gant and/or Buuf icons. I
certainly wouldn't suggest that these be the default, but what I like about
them is that they feel like little objects and not like icons. Their art has
texture and weight that really sets them apart from all the other ultra
vectorized icon sets. It would be wonderful if we could stylize our icons in
a way that also set them apart from the pack.

Corey

On Nov 7, 2007 11:44 AM, Andreas Nilsson <nisses.mail at home.se> wrote:

> Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> > On 07/11/2007, *Andreas Nilsson* <nisses.mail at home.se
> > <mailto:nisses.mail at home.se>> wrote:
> >
> >     Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> >     > On 07/11/2007, *Troy James Sobotka* <troy.sobotka at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:troy.sobotka at gmail.com>
> >
> >     >
> >     > I somewhat agree with you. I think Tango is great, but I don't
> think
> >     > that it is "Ubuntuish" in any way.
> >     Hi Mikkel!
> >
> >
> > Hi Andreas! :-)
> >
> > I guess the elegance I am looking for is something like (this goes for
> > both icons+gtk+metacity):
> >
> >  * Touch of realism (not naturalism)
> >  * Simplicity
> >  * Minimal number of distinct features, both on a per-icon level and
> > the desktop as a whole
> >  * Something that you will instantly recognize as Ubuntu
> >
> > Where I feel Tango takes another direction is specifically in points 1
> > and 4.
> Give me some time and I'll do some experiments and see what I can come
> up with.
> Ideally it would be great to have something that looked very
> distinctive, but didn't stick out like a sore thumb from the rest of the
> desktop.
> > I just want to throw in a frequently found thing in mockups around the
> > web. Monochrome notification icons. Like the ones I attached. I think
> > it is a great way to reduce the visual clutter. Perhaps we could use
> > it even more extensively than that - maybe replace a some of the "less
> > important icons" throughout the desktop with monochrome versions. That
> > could be alternative solution instead to disabling all icons in menus.
> I think this is a cool idea and it was something that Lasse, Kenneth and
> myself discussed last week as well.
> We need a good solution on how to handle Pidgin status in monochrome
> though. mpt was going to show me how Adium solved it, but we ran out of
> time. :/
> We also need a good technical solution on how to solve this. Should the
> notification area pick up it's own set of icons? Or if we just replace
> them in our theme, how do we solve it for banshee/rhythmbox that tends
> to just stick their app icon in the notification area (and yes, that is
> kind of a ugly behavior)?
>
> - Andreas
>
>
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