[patchworks]

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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 !!!

[miko]

why not you try doing it yourself ?
download the package, figure out how to extract the icons
use 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 theme

i'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)

This post has been edited by miko: 17 October 2005 - 06:01 PM

[patchworks]

Seems that ReactOS is adopting them:

"ged" said:

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...

[LLXX]

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.

[EchoNoise]

LLXX, on Jan 19 2006, 04:30 PM, said:

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

[MDGx]

Icons, icon tools, info guide:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/MYICONS.TXT

Icon tools [scroll towards the bottom of the "FREE 9x/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003 GRAPHICS EDITORS" topic]:
http://www.mdgx.com/toy.htm#GRA
You 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 Master

Icons for Windows 9x/ME [XP style]:
http://www.mdgx.com/bin.htm#SPE
Scroll down to:
http://www.mdgx.com/files/WINICONS.ZIP
http://www.mdgx.com/files/WINXPICO.EXE

Web [animated] icons/logos [GIF + JPEG formats] tools, samples, info etc:
http://www.mdgx.com/html.htm#GIF

Hope this helps.

This post has been edited by MDGx: 19 January 2006 - 12:46 PM

[RJARRRPCGP]

patchworks, on Oct 17 2005, 02:18 PM, said:

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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!

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 06 February 2006 - 07:32 PM

[EchoNoise]

works for me fine

[raskren]

This unfies KDE and Gnome. Why is this being posted in the "Old 9x OS" sub forum?

[EchoNoise]

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...

[patchworks]

Oh, well... i found some windows ports !

Tango Icons port for Windows ! 3ad @ Neowin.net forum

Tango Port for Windows XP @ deviatART

...and ---> Tango Shell Patcher @ DarkT.net

[bristols]

Hi patchworks, have you tried this on Win9x? I thought it was XP only.

[Gape]

If they looks good on Win9x, I can change my Win2000 icons replacement with Tango icons.

Thanks for the links.

[miko]

that would be optional yes/no ?
(i use my own icon set)

[Tihiy]

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!