Hi all!
a lont time a go (at least a year, perhaps more) somebody suggested
that he wanted a Tango theme. Perhaps it was Niels or Wolfgang, I
don't remember.
I started working on it, but never announced anything because it
looked utterly incomplete. Tango is not about your "controls", that
is button or menu look, but it strives to standardize the icon look.
The tango project has a reference icon set, but then many derived
from it, including Gnome.
The GS standard theme can essentially provide images to customize
controls (buttons, bars) and "common" images (folders, images for
GUI panels like open&save). Everything else uses the icons
provided by the Applications, thus the Tango theme looked awful:
GWorkspace results half-themed, because it uses a lot of common
images, but any other app looked the same as before.
Now in Dublin I exposed this issue and Richard started implementing
a way to to provide named images also for specific applications. Now
that opens doors!
Now application icons can be styled (thus e.g. system utilities can
have a standardized look) as well as things like "new document"
inside a certain application.
To test things, I enhanced the Tango theme a little bit (available
inside GAP among the theme bundles
Here a screenshot.
- (new) SystemPreferences icon is "themed" with the tango
preferences icon: seen also in GWorkspace berfore launching
- (new) Application themed, GSPdf shows "themed" back/forward and
zoom buttons
- (new) Terminal has themed application icon, as can be seen in
app-icon
- lighter color scheme to match Tango style
- desktop, folder and standard document icon in matching style
Riccardo
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