Tango Icons for jEdit

posted 09:22PM Oct 28, 2007 with tags icons jedit macosx tango by Lars Trieloff

An easy way to improve the already-sleek look of jEdit on Leopard is using Seph M. Soliman's icon collection for jEdit that is based on the Tango Icon project (another project using this icon set is Gimp.app in the latest 2.4rc3 build)

http://weblogs.goshaky.com/weblogs/lars/resource/jedit-leopard.png

Speaking of jEdit and Gimp, one thing that annoys me with Leopard is that Spaces does not deal with Java or X11-applications. Clicking an application's icon in the dock switches the desktop to the space where the main window of this application. Unfortunately this does not work with jEdit or the Gimp.

Interview with Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson

posted 10:43AM Mar 07, 2007 with tags gnome icons tango by Lars Trieloff

The Gnome Journal features an interview with two of my personal heros: Jakub Steiner and Andreas Nilsson. They are the leading and drawing heads behind the Tango Icon Project, a project that creates beautifully styled and appealing icons for desktop applications. Mindquarry is using these icons and in fact they are the base of your own Mindquarry Icon Theme.

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