Echo future

[Andreas Nilsson]

Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 23:06 +0100, Jakub 'Livio' Rusinek wrote:
>   
>> Martin Sourada wrote:
>> Easier would be making tango-compiliant theme to play well with GNOME apps.
>>     
> That would be pointless. We are offering an alternative that is
> stylistically (coincidentally) in between the tango style and oxygen
> style. I personally think that Echo can work quite good together (to
> some extent) with both, while tango and oxygen really don't work
> together at all...
>   
Hey Martin!
I'm not sure I agree that the oxygen-style and tango-style clash that 
hard and we're slowly trying to move closer to the oxygen-style. The 
latest Firefox 3 stuff is a small step in that direction (+ our HighRes 
experiments [1], [2]).

And yeah, I would be rather happy if Livio's flames calmed down a bit 
too and really hope it haven't put the tango-project in a bad light. :/
>> Some apps are using hardcoded pixmaps, but better are tangoish, than 
>> old-GNOME-1.x.
>>
>>     
> Hard-coded pixmaps are bad, if you keep fillings bugs about those, the
> situation might improve for all the people trying to make their own icon
> themes (and guessing from look at gnome-look.org there are a lot of
> them).
>   
It's also mega-important for HighContrast where the interface will be 
quite useless if hardcoded.

1. http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=Highres
2. http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=Tango-NG
- Andreas