Comments on: Flying back.. http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/10/12/flying-back/ um, what do I write here? Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Tuomas Kuosmanen http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/10/12/flying-back/#comment-2690 Tuomas Kuosmanen Fri, 14 Oct 2005 19:47:21 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/10/12/flying-back/#comment-2690 It's not that its too "cartoonish" or not serious - remember Ximian had that look pretty successfully for years. It is just that the themes and look of applications are more or less drifting towards a "cleaner" look with more flat surfaces and less three-dimensional widgets. The icons started to look a bit "chubby" in that sense. Thus we decided to go with a lighter look. But the whole point of Tango is that we want a *mechanism* for themes that work for Java, Gnome, Gtk, Qt, KDE, whatever-toolkit-someone-comes-up-with and their cat. Then you can have the current "Gnome" icon theme and all your software uses it. We just wanted to start a fresh theme to avoid stepping on peoples toes too much - this is not us trying to make Gnome look the default. This is us presenting an open invitation to all free software artists to participate on co-operation. The style also is "open" - we just defined this what we think is good - as we did not just want a "vaporware" announcement. It is a concrete theme but hopefully we get more designers on the boat to finally get a consistent user experience. So then you can run KDE and your Evolution looks at home. Then you can run XFCE and your K3B burns CD's with a nice consistent feel. Stuff like Skype and Acrobat reader would feel at home. This is an attempt to put some sense in the theme *mechanisms* that should benefit the end user a LOT, and also makes life a lot easier for application developers since their software does not get categorized as "works for desktop A, desktop B users have to suffer a bit". Help us in this :) //Tuomas It’s not that its too “cartoonish” or not serious - remember Ximian had that look pretty successfully for years. It is just that the themes and look of applications are more or less drifting towards a “cleaner” look with more flat surfaces and less three-dimensional widgets. The icons started to look a bit “chubby” in that sense. Thus we decided to go with a lighter look.

But the whole point of Tango is that we want a *mechanism* for themes that work for Java, Gnome, Gtk, Qt, KDE, whatever-toolkit-someone-comes-up-with and their cat. Then you can have the current “Gnome” icon theme and all your software uses it.

We just wanted to start a fresh theme to avoid stepping on peoples toes too much - this is not us trying to make Gnome look the default. This is us presenting an open invitation to all free software artists to participate on co-operation. The style also is “open” - we just defined this what we think is good - as we did not just want a “vaporware” announcement. It is a concrete theme but hopefully we get more designers on the boat to finally get a consistent user experience.

So then you can run KDE and your Evolution looks at home. Then you can run XFCE and your K3B burns CD’s with a nice consistent feel. Stuff like Skype and Acrobat reader would feel at home. This is an attempt to put some sense in the theme *mechanisms* that should benefit the end user a LOT, and also makes life a lot easier for application developers since their software does not get categorized as “works for desktop A, desktop B users have to suffer a bit”.

Help us in this :)

//Tuomas

]]> By: moshi http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/10/12/flying-back/#comment-2689 moshi Fri, 14 Oct 2005 17:26:28 +0000 http://www.tigert.com/archives/2005/10/12/flying-back/#comment-2689 Tango: i miss the black outlines i like so much about Jimmac´s Gnome icons :( generally i guess you are on the right track as the Gnome icons with their semi-cartoonish look are just too cartoonish and therefore too "childish" for serious Novell business stuff. bad for me. personally i think the Tango icons belong to some Java apps (must be the colorscheme) Tango: i miss the black outlines i like so much about Jimmac´s Gnome icons :(
generally i guess you are on the right track as the Gnome icons with their semi-cartoonish look are just too cartoonish and therefore too “childish” for serious Novell business stuff.
bad for me. personally i think the Tango icons belong to some Java apps (must be the colorscheme)

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