On Tuesday, 28 Nov 2006, David Nielsen wrote: > I've tried convincing the art team of Tangos superior design, > consistency, usability, accessibility and progress for a while now, it > hasn't really brought me any good fortune, infact I think the term > used was "trolling". One problem we are sure to encounter though is > that Tango has wide upstream acceptance, The gimp, Jokosher and many > other fine existing and upcoming big FLOSS projects uses and relies on > Tango. As many of these, the biggest two being the GIMP and > OpenOffice, aren't readily themeable via standard means, it will mean > a lot of work for the art team to get the same coverage not to mention > cooperation with the packagers (not an issue after the core/extras > merge I wonder?) and if they don't manage that it means inconsistency > for the users which is all together not desirable. I remembered I read those posts. Your views judging from now are correct. We should put consistency, usability, accessibility first and whether to have a unique look second. [...] > That being said, the correct place to debate such issues is probably > the fedora-art list. I think Icon theming firstly concerns usability. The most noticeable change for a distribution. > > - David Nielsen -- Leo -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
