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
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Leo