Re: GNUstep Icons and look proposal

[Nicolas Roard]

Le 18 août 04, à 14:32, Marciano Siniscalchi a écrit :

> Just my $0.0002... I do understand that creating a strong identity for 
> GNUstep is very important. I also fully agree that GNUstep needs a 
> facelift in order to attract fresh blood.
>
> However, have people considered adopting one of the better icon sets 
> used by the Gnome and KDE projects? In particular, the "standard" 
> Gnome iconset, and the the Bluecurve/Wonderland/Redhat and Crystal 
> iconsets are both professionally-designed and very complete.
>
> Even if the longer-term objective is to develop a distinctive look 
> (and I'm all for it), it would probably not be too hard to start by 
> packaging  one of the above iconsets for GNUstep. Incidentally, one 
> advantage would  be improving the coexistence with other 
> applications...

Actually, yes, it won't be very hard to provide "icon themes". In fact, 
if you want it, just take Camaelon, remove most of the stuff and just 
keep the Image.m -- it will replaces all icons on the fly if the theme 
contains them. So technically, it's not a problem at all. Perhaps I 
should effectively provide a small "IconTheme" bundle if people want to 
package existing icons theme ? I probably won't do it myself (package 
thoses icons) but if someone want to do it, drop me a mail.

Nonetheless, I really think we should create our own icons -- as you 
say, a strong identity for GNUstep is important.

--
Nicolas Roard
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