> Dear Friends,
>
>
> Debian Ciel is in its final Squeeze version, 2.2. I have, again, uploaded it
> as a tar.gz.
> SVN just wouldn't work the way I pictured it, so I kindly asked Valessio to
> help
> "pick up the pieces" (OOOPS!), but feel free to update it with the giant
> 8MB+ source
> yourself. The SVN therefore is still the older version. I personally am
> really short
> on time and can therefore not travel to Tibet and acquire version control
> foo :D.
> Maybe in another life... Sorry for the inconvenience...
>
> As always, the wiki has more about the theme, but some highlights:
>
> * The theme now has 2 versions -- one with the pinkish Debian branding
> (Debian Ciel)
> and another with a dark gray one (Debian Ciel Discreet).
> * Added a Debian Ciel Tango Icon Theme, which is basically Tango with
> the start-here icon
> changed from those blue shoes to a Debian icon.
> * All theme proposals were reverted to the default Debian settings due
> to stability concerns.
> These are basically Clearlooks for everything GTK (not sure about
> Xfce?). They are fine for
> the skin colour-wise. The icon theme is still debated and I am also
> hoping we will see
> the lxde logout splash.
>
>
>
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/debian-ciel
>
>
> Have a nice one!
>
>
> 2010/10/20 Amir Dizdarević <
cancivolonter@gmail.com>
>>
>> LOL, tomorrow is already today :) It'll be up some time during Oct 20th.
>>
>> 2010/10/20 Amir Dizdarević <
cancivolonter@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> @Michael: The current vanilla Gnome icon theme (and for all things GTK
>>> IIRC)
>>> has brown icons which don't fit with my theme proposal (IMHO). I also
>>> dislike
>>> those new white navigation icons they chose (look at Nautilus):
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.32/figures/gnome-2-32.png.en_GB
>>>
>>> Tango has very nice light blue folders which fit Ciel very well. Also,
>>> it's really colourful.
>>>
>>>
>>>
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/debian-ciel?action="">
>>>
>>> Gnome brave is a nice icon theme, but I've found it a tid bit darker and
>>> not as cute
>>> and light as Tango. However, the theme has a proper red Debian icon on
>>> the start menu.
>>> I've found the theme a bit too blue (look at the navigation icons in
>>> Nautilus), so I changed
>>> my proposal to Tango.
>>>
>>> http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/3079/basicc.png
>>>
>>> @Joesslin: My icon theme is just 1 icon (the Debian logo) and I wouldn't
>>> even have
>>> made it, it's just that Tango uses a pair of blue feet as the start menu
>>> icon
>>> (start-here.png). Other than that, there's no customization whatsoever
>>> and the theme
>>> just inherits Tango, while having the same set of sizes for the Debian
>>> icon. GTK also always
>>> falls back on the standard gnome icon theme, as well as the hicolor icons
>>> and the pixmaps
>>> folder (AFAIK). That's GTK's way of making sure it has all the icons.
>>> The icon theme will be in the SVN tomorrow. Got uni stuff now, so
>>> couldn't do it today.
>>>
>>> Hope that cleared things up a little :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 20 October 2010 00:17, Josselin Mouette <
joss@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Le mercredi 20 octobre 2010 à 00:09 +0200, Michael Banck a écrit :
>>>> > Can you summarize what the difference between the currently used icon
>>>> > theme, the Tango! theme and gnome-brave is? Is gnome-brave a
>>>> > color-modified version of tango?
>>>> >
>>>> > I guess the Tango icons are very well established and should be less
>>>> > of
>>>> > a problem to use (though I was under the impression that the current
>>>> > icon theme was actually tango already)
>>>>
>>>> My personal experience with icon themes is that it takes a long while to
>>>> ensure that all icons have a similar look, and that no icon inherited
>>>> from another theme will look bad along with them. It doesn’t look
>>>> interesting to me to switch an icon theme just to have blue folder icons
>>>> that don’t look nice with other ones.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> --
>>>> .''`. Josselin Mouette
>>>> : :' :
>>>> `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone,
>>>> `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
>>>
>>
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