The poor Mozilla folks have recently been accused of hating Linux more than they hate Hitler and Cancer combined, as they threatened to give the Linux build of Firefox the look of the platform most of us decided to move away from. As Mike points out, the diversity of our interfaces kind of suck for ISV/IDS’s like them, but things are getting better [1] and that’s a good thing for dudes like Medsphere and VMWare among others.
I’m happy that #381206 have been given some priority and we’ll do our best to fix it.
1. Fedora actually use the tango-styled Mist by default, OpenSuse use jimmacs nice icons and Ubuntu use quite a bunch of tango styled icons apart from some arrows and folders and stuff.
And rightfully so. The buggers never cared to fix non-working hotkeys in RU locale on Linux. Which drove a lot of people away from Firefox.
I was tempted to invoke Godwin’s law and walk away after reading the first sentence, but I will anyway point you to my comment #15 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=381206#c15) about the Tango icons. If the ~25 icons needed for Firefox could be quad-licensed (CC-BY-SA/MPL/LGPL/GPL), then it is likely that the icons could be included quickly in Firefox. The other Tango icons can of course keep their usual CC-BY-SA license.
It’s hardly just about the themes. Linux is a third grade citizen in many areas in in their eyes, while probably having more Firefox users than Mac has – and besides, the open source community have supported Firefox and friends since forever, helping it grow and become popular, and the Mozilla guys still mainly care about the vendor lock-in and closed platforms. It’s sad.
There’s no diversity. They have two platforms to support, X11/KDE and X11/GNOME.
[...] Fonte: Il blog del mio amico Andreas (tra l’altro mio omonimo ) [...]
And I use Epiphany. And it’s all gnomeish and in line with my theme
Danilo: yeah, I use Epiphany as well, but we fixed that two releases ago or something already.
[...] The icons that are not natively provided from the user’s icon theme by the GTK stock icon API are actively being drawn by members of the Tango art team and will use the Tango palette and style guidelines. Tango artists working on the project include Andreas Nilsson, Kalle Perssons, and Jakub Steiner. The status of Firefox Tango icon development can be seen at the Firefox page of the Tango wiki. [...]