As Glade Interface Designer is one of the tools in the cool, new GNOME Development Suite, I thought it was about time it should get a new application icon.
Like you might recall, the old icon looked like this:
The new application in svn looks like this:
Yay, The World is no longer on fire!
Speaking about Glade, yesterday I stumbled upon Vincent Geddes great work on the new icons inside Glade.
Sweet work Vincent!
Yeah, it was about time for a sane Glade icon. Rock on.
Keep on rockin’ Andreas! Sadly the world *is* on fire, but that’s unrelated to icons…
Awesome.
Please continue to Tango the world!
What is this “GNOME Development Suite” you are talking about? I’ve never heard of it, but it sounds like a _really_ good idea. Is this an actual project? If so, would you mind linking to it?
Cheers for the new icons!
About bloody time some tango love was given to glade, ++good work man
PS. I have dreamweaver and flash icons I did in tango style, would you like to add them to the pool?
Take a look here, will gladly make them available.
http://www.qdh.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/custom%20cell.png
Would love to see tango icons for gconf editor, terminal server client and a series of icons for bluetooth stuff.
Ha! That old icon is hilarious! I hope it was distributed only in XPM format for full effect.
You’re new icons look great! Tango is quickly giving the entire Linux desktop a consistent look from end to end.
I’m usually indifferent to these new “tango” icons, but this one is pretty darned nice. Good work!
Just if you find the time (and have fun designing icons…) there are a lot of really bad icons in anjuta which will hopefully become part of the developers suite in the next release cycle.
Thanks!
I’m sorry but I like the old one better, tango is great for standarization but sometimes they end up being dull and lame.
Jorge: I respect your opinion, even though I don’t agree with you that the old icon was better (suprise, suprise).
However, it should be pretty easy for you to fix, just copy the old icon (from your current install, or directly from my blog), name it glade and put it in ./icons/hicolor/48×48/apps/ and it should override the new icon without any problems.
As a former Anjuta contributor, I’m also intrigued by the “cool, new GNOME Development Suite” you refer to. What is this? I’ve been hunting the web for information and can’t find anything other than a very out-of-date page about GNOME devtools (http://www.gnome.org/projects/devtools) and a four-month-old mailing list post from Naba attempting to revive the idea. Any progress?
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-January/msg00085.html
Ah, much better. What does the world being up in flames have to do with Glade anyway? Oh well, after this we may never know.
I made the original menu icon for Glade, but not the project’s logo.
I did it out of justice to glade, it didn’t have any at the time (1999/2000?), so I just tried to mimick the big logo of the glade project to a 48×48 size. At the time, 2000, I wasn’t excited that much by it, it was about the time I stopped having time to contribute to Gnome, so it always looked a bit unfinished for my taste.
At the time, I also thought and tried something very similar to your icon, for the Programming menu in Gnome (A ruler, the “triangle” thingie, in front of a white “blueprint”) but never managed to make it as sleek, and it allways looked too crowded. I eventually gave up, and used the workers tool (to put cement on walls), a metaphor I was pleased to see being carried on with the new batch of icons in gnome 2.0, and now in tango.
Cheers.
Bah.
I was sitting at work thinking that the Glade icons needed love, so I decided to do it myself without looking around. Oh well, I’ll link mine over here and hope that your spam filter doesn’t eat me for it
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