Voting considered harmful (Was: Re: Echo Icon Theme in F10?)

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 16:08:14 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:43 +0200, David Nielsen wrote:
> 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.

Fair enough.  So why isn't Fedora Artwork's efforts being focused in
improving/fixing what they think is "wrong" with tango?

-- 
Jesse Keating
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