Cataloguing & Converting Bluecurve Icons

[Steven Garrity]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> *Many* people have expressed interest in keeping Bluecurve alive. 
> Whether or not it lives on as the default style for Fedora, it's still a 
> large set of GPL artwork that is sadly quite poorly documented, so this 
> is a plan to at least make a set of guidelines for making more icons in 
> the set and making it easy to browse the entire catalog of icons and 
> contribute to it.

Make sense.

>> The thing about Tango is, for it to really work, there needs to be 
>> adoption.
> How so?

To create a visual style that 3rd-party app developers can design to fit 
in with (as they can on the Mac, and sort-of on Windows), there must be 
a relatively consistent general visual style across the major distros. 
Maybe that's a pipe-dream (or just bad idea)...

> Is there really that much advantage to every Linux desktop's icons 
> looking *exactly* the same? How about if we stuck to a common set of 
> metaphors? This is something that I brought up in my discussion with 
> Andreas that still has not been addressed for me:

No, they don't have to be exactly the same. However, pushing this that 
make sense to be in common upstream makes sense. Sharing things like 
stroke-style, perspective, etc. can make things easier for 3rd party 
apps developers to blend in with.

As for icon metaphors, that's a great idea. There was some talk of a 
common icon metaphor list on the Tango list. We've got a basic table of 
existing icon metaphors used in KDE and Gnome, and the suggested Tango 
metaphor. It is quite incomplete, but we'd love to have 
help/collaboration on it.

Steven Garrity