Oct 10, 2005 - The Tango project was just announced: 'The Tango Desktop Project. Nor can I get the 'GNOME Bit Torrent' icon to change to the themed.
Right now I am using the 'Flat SVG' icon theme that was originally created for KDE and ported over some time ago. The last posted port was.95c or something, the most recent KDe version is 1.0. I have downloaded that version and about half through transferring all the icons to gnome directory structure as well as creating many new ones that, of course, stylistically adhere to the originals. And when I am done I will, of course, submit my changes and additions back to the fellow who created the original KDE version. This is only the most relevant example to me, because it's work I'm doing now. There are many other icon sets out there as well as desktop themes that are ported back and forth.
I'm not posting just to pee on this person's parade, but I honestly don't see anything there substantially different than.many. other folks have been doing pretty much as long as there have been desktop themes. That said, I don't use KDE because it doesn't.feel. right, and there's nothing a theme can do about that. Until you can make kde apps.behave.
![Torrent Torrent](http://ishits.ru/picture/release/19311/2.jpg)
like gnome apps (and vice versa) there's little point to this 'unified' stuff (although I hope they NEVER start making gnome apps look and act like KDe apps!). Better, in fact, to choose two.different.
themes that look good together so at least you can always tell the two apart with a glance. The initial tango-icon-theme is in breezy. Man, I hope that it really takes off. That site has some of the best ideas yet. If every app followed simple guidelines, just imagine how it would look. And anyone who wants to install different themes can, but the way things are now, it's quite disjointed.
If I install a theme, half the icons I need are there, maybe. It's kinda silly to have half-done themes. I think we need a standard, default theme for everything. But keep the customizability for sure. I for one am sick of seeing all the screenshots of people trying to imitate OSX. I agree with you there - the OSX rips are tired. OSX looked fresh for about a month when it came out, now it just looks really old.
I think what fearless leader said best describes it when he called it 'kitchenware.' The icons problem is a little deeper than just having them there.
Sometimes the problem comes from people including iconrc files in themes that override your preferences when you change icon themes. And sometimes it's a problem that's hard coded into the software. For example, the flat SVG theme I'm working on now has about 1000 icons that cover everything from stock gnome and kde functions like trash, rewind and fast-fwd, but I still can't make Gnomebaker display the themed icon instead of the default, nor can I get the 'GNOME Bit Torrent' icon to change to the themed iconset even when I set it manually. And none of the icons from the 'gnome system tools' menu will accept the theme, it appears to be a problem with those applets themselves. After putting together about 100 relatively simple SVG icons, I can vouch for the amount of work that goes into assembling a really comprehensive icon set.
Even if it takes just five minutes to draw an icon, you have to track down all the names used for it, the folder it belong in. It's hella lotta work.
Hello, I made a complete Tango! Icons pack for μTorrent. I know there already was the Tango! Set, but I tried to polish the icons as much as possible – that's why I did post this. The program and filetype icons are completely made by me (and have even 256×256 Vista resolution). Some of the toolbar, status and tabs icons are taken from the and redrawn in Inkscape to pixel-perfection.
I'm not much into the licences, but since the Tango! Project is Public Domain, everything should be all right. Program icons (my personal favorite) Filetype icons Toolbar Status Tabs (Wondering why the preview doesn't work.) Enjoy unified look. Those look very awesome.
I would like to ask you to test your own skin, as I haven't gotten a definite answer regarding the middle rss icon. It appears sometimes the graphic is 3-state and other times that the middle icon is for a presumed default state. If you notice, currently the disabled rss feeds show the inactive icon (left of rss icons). And my preliminary understanding was that this middle rss icon fills that oversight however if indeed rss is three-state then you may want to rethink the choice. I honestly don't know.
See for yourself I previously mentioned this @. For 'Remove', Tango's edit-delete is not appropriate. After all, using an image of a shredder is pretty misleading when all you're doing is removing the torrent from the list, not deleting any data. Instead, you should use. Since that's a minus sign, it nicely parallels the plus sign for 'Add Torrent'. This is also what Deluge uses.
So, any chance we could see a new toolbar with the minus sign? On another note, has anyone made a Tango-styled filetype icon (preferably based on N3fr0n's beautiful program icons)? Jewelisheaven: All the toolbars in the first post use edit-delete, which is a shredder ( ), for 'Remove'. The one made for miocor uses some other icon that's even more unclear. Since removing a torrent from the list is non-destructive, using a shredder is hardly appropriate. However, since 'Add Torrent' uses list-add ( ), it makes more sense to use ( ) for 'Remove'. I've already made a modified toolbar for myself, but I don't know how to do the shadows properly, which is why I was asking.
As for filetype icons, thanks for collecting them so nicely. I was thinking more along the lines of one based on the green square. But I was just curious if anyone has made one. Not a big deal. N3fr0n: By the way, I was thinking about a modified 'colorful' toolbar. No problem, heh.
Yeah I tried making shadows after I saw something I liked but I imagine it has something to do with making that alpha channel stick. I tried in my basic bitmap editors and saw half the skin elements were all matte backgrounds, whereas they appear transparent in the program. You may want to check out savaden's page he's one of the resident skinners around. The remove toolbar button has multiple functions, the most basic and DEFAULT of just removing the torrent from the list. The other options include remove from list + torrent file on disk, remove from list + data on disk, remove from list + torrent file on disk + data on disk.
The last two can be visualized as a shredder as your data will be gone afterwards. As far as the filetype icon, yeah the new 1.8 icon of the square hasn't propagated into all the skinning areas yet, but I'm sure it will. And hey, remember if you post up what you've got so far there's plenty of people who comment and customize themselves, so it can't hurt. Thank you for creating and sharing this with us!
![Torrent Tango Project Torrent Tango Project](http://www.daleisphere.com/wp-content/uploads/soyouthinkyoucandancechelsieandmarkargentineantango2june182008.jpg)
I just registered to say thanks, and to ask you to fix a bug or two that I found. If it's not a big request, and if it is possible of course. BUG #1 - Tangerine toolbar isn't really transparent.
As you can see the Tangerine toolbar's background is white, and doesn't really fit in the whole picture of Tangerine look and feel. I hope you can fix this, I would really love to use this instead of the regular Tango toolbar. BUG #2 - Ugly icon when switching programs When I'm switching between programs using the ALT+TAB keys the custom icon for uTorrent looks really ugly I don't know why it displays the lower resolution icon. Have a look: Finally Can I ask you to create a custom toolbar for me based on Tangerine but with silver Start, Pause, Stop buttons like you created for the Tango toolbar? It would be really nice to see the regular Tangerine toolbar fixed, and to have one with those silver icons.
Thanks once again. I just registered on this forum to post a reply p.s.: The filetype icon is a killer!
You really rock! Well, progressing. The Tangerine bug is probably a click-mistake, black filetype icon and silver Tangerine are in queue. Jewelisheaven: The shadow is there, but is higher and a little less opaque than in other icons. I tried many combinations but this looked the best in my opinion. By the way I don't know what to do with the icon sorting. I tried almost everything but the bug still remains.
Maybe I have an editor which lines them up automatically by size (Gimp), I don't know. Edit: Toolbars updated and silver Tangerine added.
Edit: Black filetype added. The old remove icon! Must fix it as fast as possible. PS: Thanks for mostly positive reactions.