Bug 5863

Summary:	Folder icon should have more suitable colour (yellow).
Product:	tango	Reporter:	Petr Tomes <ptomes>
Component:	icon theme	Assignee:	Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	CVS
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Petr Tomes 2006-02-11 20:44:55 UTC

"The Tango Desktop Project exists to create a consistent user experience for
free and Open Source software with graphical user interfaces." But this user
experience is not consistent due to representation of folder colour (now in
shades of blue).

Folder in shades of yellow colour is standard-default representation on:
GNOME (since 2.0 - June 2002)
OpenOffice.org (since fist builds - 2001)
Mozilla Thunderbird (since 0.1 - July 2003)
Mozilla Firebird/Firefox (since 0.6 - May 2003)
Microsoft Windows (since Windows 3.11 - December 1993)
Microsoft Office (since 7.0 - August 1995)

Yellow folder icons has been familiar to most users of leading Open Source
projects for past several years and even to most computer users for more than 10
years. Please consider suitable change in Tango icon set. Thank you.

Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2007-08-10 04:19:19 UTC

Windows Vista - yellow
GNOME - beige
KDE - blue
Mac OS X - blue

So we went for blue. The color of the default folder is a popular bikeshed discussion. We used to have a grey folder in tango to be completely neutral, but changed it based on the stuation above.

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