Andreas Nilsson wrote:
Some time ago Jon Cruz mentioned following the tango-art-libre naming scheme [1] and and I'm not sure if that also would involve making the theming system more similar to the system used by kde, gnome and xfce, ie. using individual files in a directory structure and in different sizes for menus and toolbars.
One of the reasons we have been using a single svg file is the advocacy of svg itself. Using multiple icons at different sizes is somewhat retro, and against the concept of resolution-free artwork. Maybe if Tango provided bitmaps from little files to people who needed them, yet is also able to reference the vector master when needed, too...... Oh, and use URI's to get them. Then the app developer can ignore the mechanism it takes to get the image.
(feature request? :-)
The SGI desktop of 11 years ago had the wonderful property that -everything- was scalable. Maybe Tango can give apps the ability to catch up with that now.
Also, a bit of CSS could be used to theme the entire icon set.
bob