patchworks Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 What is the Tango Desktop Project?The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.While the look and feel of an application is determined by many components the initial work has been done on unifying the look of the individual icon sets.Tango defines a standard icon style guidelines document that applications and desktop enviroments can adhere to. Work has started on creating a new base icon theme based on a standard icon naming specification. In addition, we provide transition utilities to create icon themes for existing GNOME and KDE desktops.Eventually, the Tango Desktop initiative aims to provide: * A specified default native look. * A subsystem to help standardize toolkits on a common look and feel. * A complete, standard set of application, mimetype, and stock icons to build upon a style guide. * Cross-desktop humane interface guidelines.Check it out --> Official website Tango Icon Gallery ...hope to see some kind of 'pack' that change 9x into a tango-style desktop !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miko Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 (edited) why not you try doing it yourself ?download the package, figure out how to extract the iconsuse a tool like IconShop to convert the icons (possibly packaging them into an .icl (icon library))and something like Icon Phile or Desktop Architect to make a themei'm sure MDGx's site has some good apps on it also if you have a look.Win98SE can take up to 24bit icons (thats true color with no 8bit alpha channel)IconShop will convert a 24bit bitmap into 24bit image which can be exported as an 24bit icon if you load it into the program(just make sure the background/transparency colour is set in IconShop before you do it) Edited October 18, 2005 by miko Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchworks Posted January 18, 2006 Author Share Posted January 18, 2006 Seems that ReactOS is adopting them:I've just spent the past few weeks porting the Tango icons and cleaning up the GUI. You'll find that most icons are now Tango and available in the standard sizes.Hope to see a Tangoed 98... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLXX Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Looks too "XP-ish" for me. Interesting project, but I prefer icons with a more "flat" appearance that matches with the flat rectangular style of the 9x GUI elements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Looks too "XP-ish" for me. Interesting project, but I prefer icons with a more "flat" appearance that matches with the flat rectangular style of the 9x GUI elements.XP-ish... please Obviously you'll need to look harder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDGx Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 (edited) Icons, icon tools, info guide:http://www.mdgx.com/files/MYICONS.TXTIcon tools [scroll towards the bottom of the "FREE 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 GRAPHICS EDITORS" topic]:http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#GRAYou are looking for these free(ware) tools:* SnIco Edit* Icon Suite* IconShop* Free Icon Studio* PC Magazine IconEdit32* Microsoft Windows 98 Resource Kit (RK) Icon/Image Editor (IMAGEDIT.EXE) + Animated/Static Cursor Editor (ANIEDIT.EXE)* Icon MasterIcons for Windows 9x/ME [XP style]:http://www.mdgx.com/bin.htm#SPEScroll down to:http://www.mdgx.com/files/WINICONS.ZIPhttp://www.mdgx.com/files/WINXPICO.EXEWeb [animated] icons/logos [GIF + JPEG formats] tools, samples, info etc:http://www.mdgx.com/html.htm#GIFHope this helps. Edited January 19, 2006 by MDGx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJARRRPCGP Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 (edited) What is the Tango Desktop Project?The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces.While the look and feel of an application is determined by many components the initial work has been done on unifying the look of the individual icon sets.Tango defines a standard icon style guidelines document that applications and desktop enviroments can adhere to. Work has started on creating a new base icon theme based on a standard icon naming specification. In addition, we provide transition utilities to create icon themes for existing GNOME and KDE desktops.Eventually, the Tango Desktop initiative aims to provide: * A specified default native look. * A subsystem to help standardize toolkits on a common look and feel. * A complete, standard set of application, mimetype, and stock icons to build upon a style guide. * Cross-desktop humane interface guidelines.Check it out --> Official website Tango Icon Gallery ...hope to see some kind of 'pack' that change 9x into a tango-style desktop !!! DNS error. tango-project.org could not be found. Please check the name and try again. I dunno why this problem occured. It's fine now. Earlier today, I also had major slowness, my 56k internet connection was going at only around 19.2 kbps until I took my US Robotics 5699B PCI Winmodem out and hooked up a Zoom external serial modem. I didn't have this problem before. But when I tried that web site earlier, that error message seemed to occur fast, like it was impatient! It didn't even seem to wait long enough before saying that it couldn't be found! Edited February 7, 2006 by RJARRRPCGP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 works for me fine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raskren Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 This unfies KDE and Gnome. Why is this being posted in the "Old 9x OS" sub forum? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EchoNoise Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 Because of the fact that somebody wants those icons to appear in windows 95/98...It would be good to see something like that, although I don't think windows 95/98 has support for 32-bit alpha icons... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patchworks Posted February 23, 2006 Author Share Posted February 23, 2006 Oh, well... i found some windows ports !Tango Icons port for Windows ! 3ad @ Neowin.net forumTango Port for Windows XP @ deviatART...and ---> Tango Shell Patcher @ DarkT.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristols Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Hi patchworks, have you tried this on Win9x? I thought it was XP only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gape Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 If they looks good on Win9x, I can change my Win2000 icons replacement with Tango icons.Thanks for the links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miko Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 that would be optional yes/no ?(i use my own icon set) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tihiy Posted February 23, 2006 Share Posted February 23, 2006 Patcher won't work on Win9x without rewriting .cmd-files to .bat ones with 9x paths.I've tried it, looks great, but too Linuxish to me - too different from Windows icons, even from firefox html icon.Do not forget that you'll need to use RPLite to turn on 32-bit icons support, because there is no 8-bit analogs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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