Flying back..
Apparently the Boston area air traffic control radar has issues, so hopefully my flight will be on schedule.. Anyways, it was great to meet new and “old” people again in the summit, see you again soon!
Oh, and for those who are interested in the Tango project, there’s an IRC channel #tango on freenode.
Remember, Tango is not “yet another theme”, what I am even more interested in is to really look outside our “Gnome/KDE/Whatever” sandbox and try to fix the overall user experience on “Linux Desktop” - we need to co-operate really. Unified look and feel is one step in that direction, and a logical one for me as an artist. But anyway, time to catch the flight.. 
October 14th, 2005 at 20:26
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)
October 14th, 2005 at 22:47
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