4.4 default look - Take 3

[daniele favara]

On 2/3/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> On 2/3/2006 3:36 AM, daniele favara wrote:
> > On 2/3/06, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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> >> daniele favara wrote:
> >>> On 2/3/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> >>>> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> >>>>> Same player, try again. Take 3.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Screenshot here:
> >>>>> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/preview/Default-4.4-proposal/Xfce-orange-take3.png
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Theme here:
> >>>>> http://www.foo-projects.org/~olivier/preview/Default-4.4-proposal/Xfce-orange-take3.tar.gz
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I kinda like this one, pretty nice to use.
> >>>> Looks nice with Tango, but it somehow doesn't fit with Rodent IMHO. If
> >>>> Rodent is default for 4.4 (which I think it will/should be), either the
> >>>> Rodent colors should be more like Tango or the default Gtk theme colors
> >>>> should be more like Rodent.
> >>>>
> >>>> Just my 0.02€...
> >>>>
> >>> The rodent theme seems somehow "hardcoded" in xfce ... if i'm not
> >>> wrong why not to make xfce fully "themeable" ?
> >> Because it takes effort, and there are more important things to do.  If
> >> you have the time, feel free to work up a patch.  Most of Xfce's icons
> >> are indeed themable; there are only a few parts (like the main settings
> >> dialog, for example) that have hardcoded icon names.
> >>
> >
> > i'll take a look on this, is it ok if i ask to tango project people to
> > add xfce icon names? or are you planing to change the names of those
> > icons ?
>
> This should be done on an icon-by-icon basis.  If there's an icon name
> in the spec that matches the function of an icon that we're using (with
> a different name), then we should just change ours.  But if there isn't
> anything similar, we should ask for new icon names to be added.
>
> > i was thinkng to write a page on my wiki, showing the xfce icons,
> > possible tango icons and relative names ... then ask to add the names
> > when and if you accept that.
>
> That sounds fine.  Please go by the official icon naming specification
> and not just by what's in the tango icon theme.
>

here we go ...

http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Roadmap-0.3-1:XfceTheme

i'll continue just in case i'll see what i'm doing is useful for you too :).

There are some icons that apparently are needed in the xfce icon theme
but that doesn't exist in the icon namin spec ... i don't know if the
following link can be somhow useful  ..

http://tango-project.org/Icon_Metaphors


ciao

df