Hi
Tango is not only an icon theme, in fact it is mainly an icon naming
specification.
I think it make sense to support this naming scheme, which is under
development at freedesktop.org.
Yes. Oxygen in KDE IIUC is using the same naming scheme. Probably a more
important step than any particular theme design for interoperability
As for the icons themselves, I can see both pluses and minuses of
either having an own theme or adopting Tango.
A new theme is certainly a lot of work (maybe duplicate work) and have
to be maintained for a long period of time (see the subject of this
message) but it can improve the identity of the distro and expand the
community. Look at how much publicity has Tango generated.
Fedora project generally hasnt been good at marketing and the focus has
remained mostly on churning out engineering resources on improving the
underlying system rather than look and feel. The current development
branch has received some attention and some of the efforts should be
visible by now. Involving more of the community into the design process
is a good goal. Suggestions welcome.
However, looking back at the logo design process, I am not very
confident our community excels in the graphic department: basically
the community was not able to come with a good enough logo and in the
end an external (professional) design was used.
Partially thats the failure of the marketing project to define a set of
guidelines for the artists before throwing open the contest and get the
desktop/design team on board to discuss the proposals and offer
suggestions. It also brought in the need to reach out better to the
community for various Fedora related news. We learned from that and I am
working on improving in both these fronts.
regards
Rahul
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