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Tango-icons for GTK+

Today we, the people of Tango project, created 199 icons to refresh the icon set included in the Gtk+ toolkit. In one day. Call it the power of the community or free software development model, or whatever. I think it rocks!

I think they look awesome - 9 people managing to use a common visual style is also a pretty remarkable. I think we made the right choice to go with SVG and a clear workflow to follow.

Congratulations everyone, I really hope the voice of reason wins and we can get this in gtk+ upstream - I remember the days when I drew the first icon and everyone jumped up and down for the simple fact that we had icons. Let's not stop the creativity this time either, guys!

One thing I want to do in the future is to start thinking towards high-dpi screens (not just N800 - this is coming to desktops and laptops too) - we will need more icons in the larger end of the scale - and I, wearing my Nokia hat, want to work together with the community to define this for us all, so we can avoid duplicate work. Besides, the smaller the pile of patches Maemo has against mainstream free software the better.