On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 17:52 +0200, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Josué Alcalde González wrote: > > El jue, 06-04-2006 a las 00:09 +0200, Ricardo Pérez López escribió: > > > >> El mié, 05-04-2006 a las 23:52 +0200, Étienne Bersac escribió: > >> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>> He also note that "ssh", "ftp" are disturbing. Especially for tiny > >>>>> icons. The sharp orange label are too agressive. > >>>>> > >>>> I like the tangerine icons, but I don't agree with the above. I > >>>> like the > >>>> "ssh", "ftp" and others, because it's informative and (IMHO) isn't > >>>> disturbing. > >>>> > >>> Remember that's just an extern point of view, my father's one. Who is > >>> clueless of smb, dav, ftp and friends, even if he use oftenly smb. He > >>> is going to use dav and even ssh as it just appear in his file > >>> manager with avahi/zeroconf. The anduilos icon is the Mac OS X ssh > >>> server on my iMac (named anduilos). User prefer "bersace's public > >>> file" instead of ssh, and other technical stuffs. That's just a fact. > >>> > >> Yes, I'm with you in that. Maybe we could think in a solution which mix > >> the two point of views (newbie and intermediate/advanced). > >> > >> > >>> I also appreciate info label for protocols and formats (odt, etc.), > >>> but i dislike the orange used for those label. Far too sharp. I also > >>> dislike the text in 16x16 icons. That's just annoying. > >>> > >> Mmmm... What about brown or dark-yellow for that? > >> > > > > What I would prefer is brown folders, because there is too much orange > > in my desktop and my nautilus. > > It is the same of title bars. They were too orange at first, and know > > they are brown again. I include a folder example. > > > > About labels, I would prefer small icons to show the type of file: > > - a blue W in a blue square for ms word files. > > - a green X in a green square for excel. > > - a small gull for openoffice files. > > - a window logo for samba > > - a globe for ftp > > - a key for ssh > > - a console for .sh > > - a debian icon in the package for .deb. > > - a red hat for in the package for .rpm. > > - ..... > > > Hi! > About samba, ssh, ftp etc. > If you take a look at > http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bat/orango-tango/status.png you can see that > lapo already created those, but they are not in tangerine (yet). Right > now, all the icons in tangerine follows the names in icon-naming-spec, > but I'll start polluting tangerine with various applications icons > really soon anyway, so I think those will get in at some point or another. > - Andreas >
Chance we could create a separate package later on just for the Tangerine stuff? Or perhaps create a standard spec for application icons? Not point trying to reach a consistent desktop look when the app icons do not follow the trends of the others. :) -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
