2008/10/14 Nicu Buculei <nicu_fedora@nicubunu.ro>
Jesse Keating wrote:
On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 19:01 +0000, Martin Sourada wrote:

Does it bring anything to the wider upstream community? I hope that in
the long run it will ease icon themes creation process for others as
well (e.g. with helping with replacing unthemable icons by themable
ones). Also I hope it will emerge into cross desktop icon theme used by
much wider audience than just Fedora users.

Wasn't that already tried with bluecurve (and failed)?

Bluecurve failed to define naming standards, failed to get upstream adption. Looking at the project that for icons actually made this happen, Tango we now have the required standards, many upstreams such as gimp have adopted it. I would say Bluecurve was a failure primarily for technical reasons, it tried to create a solution without getting buyin. As an art project Bluecurve actually did quite well in moving the desktop ahead at the time, and without it we wouldn't have the standards today that we do, they rose from it's ashes.

Even KDE4' Oxygen icons, having never myself actually played with them, are said to be designed to blend with the Tango icons. They use the naming standard, but that aside a KDE app will never blend 100% with a GNOME environment and vice virsa, there are different design ideals but we are getting better through standardization.

- David