28.Oct.2005
I really like the idea of the Tango project. I somehow enjoyed the original, desaturated gnome icon-style more – but I suppose it’s all a matter of a personal taste. You just can’t make everyone happy. And it’s a small price to pay for unification (yes, we need standards badly).
Providing a visually-unified system is our chance to gain some points over Windows (where everything comes from a different planet – in terms of icon/application style). As of yet, the only system truly unified is the Mac OSX. Possibly this is why certain people find it so attractive.
I’d love to see Tango-style icons in Diva. Right now I’m borrowing some icons from Gimp but this is a temporary solution (duplicating icons in a different context confuses the users). So if you’re an icon-artist with some free time…
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Screenshot! ;)
Dominik, if you send a list of icons (just come up with some generic names, and provide a tiny bit of context) that would typically be included in a video-editing application, we can add those to the art-libre set we’re planning. It’s gpoing to be a set of stock icons in the tango style to be used in applications such as inkscape, gimp, scripbus etc…
I suggest you name the icons you need, and I’m sure someone will help out. Heck, I’m no icon artist, but I’d be happy to give it a go for the fun of it. ;-)
Thanks for the response! I’m putting-up a Diva Development Wiki right now, and I’ll include the details about icons there.
I’m moving into icons from splash screens and wallpapers, and I’ve considered perhaps trying my skills in something like this - so, I guess I’d be happy to give at least one or two icons a shot.
Kind regards, Pascal Klein
If you’d like to help with the icons, check the Art Libre Set page on the Tango wiki. The aim of this page/sub-project is to create a set of universal icons for usage in various media-editing applications. Icons required for Diva are included there as well.
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