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Cheers, you are 100% right, they look really professional.

In my opinion they are what the tango icon theme *should *be like.

http://gnome-look.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=128143&file1=128143-1.png&file2=&file3=&name=Faenza


On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:25 AM, M. Adnan Quaium
<adnan.quaium@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I somehow solve this problem by using Faenza Icon themes. So when I install
> Ubuntu in someone's computer, the first thing I do is to install Faenza
> (even before installing restricted extras). I donot know whether the guys
> behind Faenza are world class but they really did an amazing job.
>
>
> On 15 March 2011 18:51, Paul Sladen <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hello Peterson and Adnan,
>>
>> I suspect the answer to these are much along the same lines as
>> something I gave on AskUbuntu recently, to a question about the fonts:
>>
>>  "Will there be a Ubuntu Serif font in the future?"
>>
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/26104/will-there-be-a-ubuntu-serif-font-in-the-future
>>
>> The answer here is that it depends not only on time and enthusiasm
>> but finding very skilled people and getting them involved---with their
>> background knowledge and experience.  For doing a full Ubuntu Serif
>> companion font expansion, I suggested that perhaps means:
>>
>>  1 Find a type designer who is interested
>>  2 Work with them to make a beautiful, complementary and hinted expansion
>>
>> It'll take a while too; before you could even start such a process
>> (which will take a *long* time) it would be necessary to understand
>> the background.  What is it _for_?  Why would it be done/re-done?
>>
>> Lots of people can draw icons, or create sounds or make fonts; but
>> will the results fit together?  Will they be beautiful as a whole? If
>> we here working on Ayatana want to push the state of people's
>> computering experiences forward then there's not much point making
>> fonts, icons, sounds or backgrounds "for the sake of it".  They need
>> to definitely improve on what is there already there and we need to be
>> able to scientifically prove that that is the case.
>>
>> Once that research and development is done in Ayatana (which will
>> benefit everyone), you can start to think about the Ubuntu case.
>> The Ubuntu desktop and brand is a jigsaw of many parts.  Admittedly
>> not all of those parts fit perfectly at the moment, but if you change
>> one piece only; the piece next to it might not fit as well.
>>
>> If you want something to happen and care about it, the best approach
>> is probably to find the people with the skills and get them interested
>> in what Ubuntu is---what it's doing and how they can help make a
>> difference to millions of people's computing lives everyday.  The
>> sooner one can find the right people, the sooner your and other
>> people's dreams can come true!
>>
>> You've each suggested icons and sounds.  Do you have any world-class
>> contacts in those genres?  Contacts capable of /not/ just designing
>> sounds or icons, but those who can create guides /for creating/
>> icons or sounds and prove why the changes are an improvement over
>> what's available!
>>
>>        -Paul
>>
>>
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