I’ve just edited About section to make it somewhat more up to date. Most importantly, I wanted to clarify what I was hoping to work on before Dapper got released:
tango-artwork
The package
tango-artworkwill be a package available in the universe repositories for you to download such that you do not have to find Tango-styled artwork on various, sometimes hard to find places on the web for a consistent free desktop feel, by just downloading and the package as you would through your package management system to get edubuntu-artwork or xubuntu-artwork. I hope that from tango-artwork I can also build rpm and ebuild packages which hopefully will make it upstream and into other distributions/package management repositories. At first this will be for the GNOME and XFCE desktop but I intend to create a package for the KDE desktop shortly afterwards as well. I admitt, this was supposed to be ready for Dapper Drake (Ubuntu 6.06), however it has been delayed. I intend to get this finished, at least into Ubuntu’s universe repositories (not just for Dapper but for Breezy also) by the end of this month (June).
So, expect some cool stuff soon.
PS. I love these Tango emotes.
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Hi Pascal,
Those tango emotes are rather funky, I want to incorporate them into my website now :). In reference to your tango-artwork, I’d be more than happy to create a package for Arch Linux. Good luck, and I look forward to it.
BTW: I’d love to see the tango firefox, thunderbird, ryhthmbox, bluefish type application icons. However, I understand there may be legal issues with firefox/thunderbird.
A Firefox theme was in the final stages just before Dapper was released, however it was not fully complete and at that time it was too late too add. The artwork team is going to meet within the week and then, once the Paris summit is over we’re hopefully going to get things rocking for Edgy, which will also mean packages that end up in Dapper and Breezy repos.
On the list of things we’ve got Firefox and Thunderbird Tango and Ubuntu themes (they’re essentially complete already).
As for Rhythmbox, it’s a GNOME app so it uses the selected GNOME icon set. If that is Tango you get Tango icons, but I agree, it’s not yet complete. Icons for shuffle, repeat, library, radio, podcasts, the playlists are not yet done but yea, they are on the list I would imagine for the Tango Project. Might see if I can help with some of those actually…
As for Bluefish, I think it’s devels have partially used their own special icons…
Cheers, and thanks for offering to create an Arch package for tango-artwork. I’ll give you a buzz once it’s done.