DOpenWorld By chandan
Icon design principles: (a) simplicity (b) outer thick lines, inner thin lines (c) no 3D effects as far as possible. More at http://blogs.sun.com/chandan?anchor=openworld_icon_theme
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| 8 May 2006 | CC Attribution-ShareAlike | |
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User Comments
I love these Icons, and I can't wait till I can get my grubby little paws on the svg icons. mwahahah... Thanks Chandan!
I'm sorry, I've unfortunately deleted last comment. Someone recommended Top Edge Monks wallpaper which should fit this icon theme, see http://art.gnome.org/backgrounds/gnome/1814
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The whole art deco thing with your GDM and Splash works nicely with these icons. Any chance of getting something similar for Gnome?
Wallpapers, Firefox themes, the list goes on.
I myself am getting tired of the shaded, fake 3D, Shiny or Flat Icon themes.
Great work
Tango is approaching a different style but I still love a clear and simplistic style of OpenWorld. Since Sun most likely to adopt any changes that will be made for GNOME, I reckon Java Desktop System soon adopt the Tango standarning naming spec soon later GNOME start using it. Give the naming spec program a try
joneslee is referring to naming spec. I had named icons based on a Java Desktop System theme. So some icons may not show up on other systems. I see Tango project also has a tool that generates symlinks for more possible icons names.
Otherwise design guidelines are totally opposite. Focus is not in details but on shapes that people can easily distinguish and identify. It is an experiment to see if simple icons can aesthetically look good, without the realism, shades and shadows.
joneslee: eh? What has Tango icon theme spec to do with this icon theme???
Kudos to Chandan, very nice work! But I have a suggestion, it will be better if you follow Tango icon theme spec. http://tango-project.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification
Will package the SVG icon theme soon.
Most of the gtk icons are there in stock folder. I guess need to be named for all possible cases.
For other work which uses these icons, see OpenWorld GDM login theme:
http://blogs.sun.com/chandan?anchor=gdm_login_screens_for_opensolaris
(the one which has a big earth icon)
and grub splash screens:
http://blogs.sun.com/chandan?anchor=opensolaris_grub_boot_splash_screen
Great icons! I hope to see this properly packaged, by which I mean at least properly named gtk icons and inclusion of different sizes. If the icons are made as SVG, why not use those for larger sizes and PNGs for smaller?
Please do post any other artwork you have to match this icon theme.
Great theme, would it be possible to have a SVG version as like 96x96 icon (I use ROX-Filer)
Yeah, I think so, simple and clean. Keep working on it.
These are my most favorite icons ever! I love them!