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…and it was hell of a good run! Great group of people got together today on #tango and we were drawing like there was no tomorrow. There were 199 icons created in one day.

I will not rather name anyone of you who made this possible because I would forget someone for sure
Update: Who was there drawing: Jakub Steiner, Steven Garrity, Tuomas Kuosmanen, Andreas Nilsson, Lapo Calamandrei, Josef Vybiral(me myself), Hylke Bons, Charavel Olivier, Kalle Persson and David Prieto

It was wonderfull to feel that artistic “mojo” floating around! If anyone wants to know who everyone ran this icon marathon, check the Tango Fridays page and Graphicsplanet to see what great stuff has been done. Yeeeehaaaa!

Preview of gtk stock icons
(original composition by Jakub “jimmac” Steiner)

Links:

• Hylke Bons
• Steven Garrity
• Jakub Steiner
• Tuomas Kuosmanen
• Andreas Nilsson
• more links will come

Evolution of Network proxy icon

For this tango friday, I took a quest on finding better metaphor for network proxy applet in gnome control center. This is the story how the metaphor evolved and where it ended

If you look over the Internet, the “internet proxy” or “network proxy” in images and schemes usually use a wall or a general computer/server metaphor. It is good when the proxy has also a firewall inside or when it is in the scheme and has a description.

Not a good metaphor The next was a series of “Just another globe”(TM) styled icons, one inspired by Apple’s icon or network configuration and the last one inspired by the icon used in Tango icon theme for the same purpose.

Then some brain damage happened to me and this icon appeared After Jimmac’s suggestion, the wire on the right side was added.

Based on these, the final icon was created Added some colours, line enhancements etc… et voila! Icon created, packed (renamed as gnome-network-preferences as Dobey suggested and sent to bugzilla)

Update 17. 02. 2007: I’ve just beaten another c-c bug, the icon for sound applet

Sound preferences icon

Now the icon waits for GO/NO-GO result

The Friday of 12th January was not officially marked as the “Tango Friday” but there was one request on the tango-artists mailing list that attracted my attention. Steven Garrity sent there a request for an icon for Meld application. Meld describes itself as visual diff and merge tool and judging from screenshots, it looks really like a helpful application for developers. To be honest, at the first moment I wanted to make an icon of Vulcan mind meld process but that is not much following GNOME HIG, so I did “only” a tangoified version of the current logo in their SVN (thanks go also to Lapo Calamandrei and other Tango artists for comments).

Yesterday, it was a wonderfull Tango friday! Lots of people came to #tango and danced around icons with us. I would like to shout glory to all knights who participated on this quest and created new icons for applications reported bellow Sir Andreas’ blogpost. We all together fought like lions and enjoyed the whole day.

You can see all new icons we created yesterday at special Tango Fridays’ page. Now these icons are going to be sent to relevant people who care about packages/applications and we can only hope they will be accepted

At the end, a nice suggestion has been made by hbons, to make Tango friday each first friday of the month. As he trully said, it would speed up things rapidly

I just have been drawing some bugs These two will probably not be icons for bug-reporting tool HanzZ is developing but they are still nice to show. I have to give a credit to guys from #tango for feedback . Done entirely in Inkscape.

Note: these drawing are not public domain.

I am used to use PSI to communicate through jabber service on my Windows box. On my GNU/Linux machine I like GNOME/Xfce more than KDE so I was looking for a jabber client with similar capabilities to PSI but using GTK libs(and not GAIM). And Nomed showed me Gajim jabber client. This client is comparable with PSI in the features area, and has some things more (like tabbed MUC chats ).

What I did not like on the Gajim were icons for icq buddies. After small detective work to find where these icons are stored and a bit of Inkscaping, I’ve created a set which I like and give here to the world. (Who knows, maybe Gajim developers will like it too and will include it in the next version ) Here it is:

Of course I do provide also the package with these icons and instructions how to install. To install simply decompress these icons into /usr/share/gajim/data/iconsets/transports/icq/ directory, restart Gajim and enjoy nice new icons

These icons are released under Creative Commons 2.0 - By GNU GPL v2 licence.

Update: 32×32 and 48×48 icons are ready too now.

Update 2: Relicensed to GNU GPL2.

Basilico is a volume manager application like gnome-vm or ivman which Daniele Favara, a.k.a. nomed, developed for his LiveCD Linux distribution dsslive. The purpose of this application is to handle new and existing drives/storage devices comfortably from the systray of any Freedesktop.org standard compliant desktop environment(designed originally for Xfce). It brings dialogs as similar as in GNOME or KDE but is coded in python and in my opinion less space consuming and nicer

Well, to the point, nomed asked me and Roxville to design an icon for this application, so here it is:

Style is based on the Tango project’s guidelines with scalable version available too. Done in 3 hours mainly thanks to the Roxvile’s music, check out, he is really inspirative musician!

note: icons are NOT public domain

Ikonky pro témata k článkům na GIMP.cz obsahují ještě další ikonky, ale vzhledem k faktu, že ty jsou pouhou změou originálního loga, tak je nedávám na odiv jako své práce .

Poku máte zájem mé ikonky pouít, můžete tak svobodně učinit, pouze Vás chci požádat aby jste mi o tom zaslali email(nemusíte, ale budu rád když budu vědět, že se mé ikonky někomu líbí).

Prozatím vše POZOR! Ikonky jsou v nestandardním formátu 60×60 px, takže se nehodí jako ikonky pro programy.