Breezy Icon Theme

[Øivind Hoel]

This is probably considered useless list traffic by some, but I feel I
need to voice my opinion on such an important issue (after all, the
icon theme is in your face 100% of the time)

I agree with others saying the Dropline Neu theme looks too
plasticy/childish/kde-ish (not to say kde is crap or anything like
that - I just think they've made some horrible decisions - their
default and related icon themes included). This theme simply stands
out too much in a not-so-good way. It looks unprofessional compared to
most other gnome themes, the colour pallette doesn't in any way match
ubuntu, and I'd really hate to install ubuntu on a friends computer
only to have this theme in our faces.

gPerfection is nice enough, but in my opinion the default gnome theme
it inherits from is drop-dead boring, no matter how complete and
usable it is. I currently use the "Ubuntu" icon them, and like the set
of icons it provides on top of the gnome ones.

I'd say go ahead with Humility - I just installed it and have had a
look at it - it seems to have a sane team structure for artists, the
icons are imho _very_ pretty (though it needs a proper "home" icon ;>)
and further solidifies Ubuntus position as an innovative desktop
linux.


On 10/2/05, MadMan2k <madman2k at gmx.de> wrote:
> Pascal Klein wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 07:54 am, MadMan2k wrote:
> >
> >
> >>since there is not much I see from the  Artwork Team, I'd like to suggest
> >>Dropline Neu as the default Icon set for Breezy:
> >>http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=27765
> >>
> >>if you use the included brown directory icon set, it fits ne new forum
> >>design very well.
> >>
> >>what do you think?
> >>
> >>M2k
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Hi.
> >
> >The artwork team had some disorganisation problems. We weren't all too happy
> >with the outcome (we didn't get to finish everything we wanted to), but we
> >intend to make the best out of Dapper. Concerning icons - there is an icon
> >set being worked on but it is not finished.
> >
> >There is a wiki page for these icons, please find them here:
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HumilityIcons
> >
> >There is also an icon guide set up to guide icon development:
> >https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IconGuide
> >
> >
> >Cheers.
> >Pascal
> >
> >
> the Humility Icons, right - I tried the version from the repositories and
> I have to say, that Dropline Neu seems much "cleaner" to me, besides
> of being much more complete.
>
> Perhaps we should consider using this as a basis or even involving the
> original author instead of reinventing the wheel - but that would really be
> a dapper discussion.
>
> M2k
>
>
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