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.
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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