Fix the ugly GTK+ icons in Windows

[detyabozhye]

OK, so I got some people to start using Gaim^W Pidgin on Windows, and using the GTK-Wimp theme it looks fine, but when using the open/save file dialog or just using the menus, the stock GTK+ icons are just ugly.

I tried searching all over the Internet on how to change them in Windows. Then I decided to try by myself since I didn't find anything. I copied the Tango icon theme from Ubuntu to C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\share\icons\ and adding the line gtk-icon-theme-name = "Tango" to the gtkrc file in C:\Program Files\Common Files\GTK\2.0\etc\gtk-2.0\ (twice, first time I crashed Windows somehow and the changes didn't get saved) and it worked!

What I'm wondering is why hasn't anyone said anything about this yet anywhere? Lots of ******* users use GTK apps, haven't they noticed the ugly icons yet?

[sloggerkhan]

most windows icons are ugly. Plus windows users have an atitude of "what can you expect from something free?" (Answering themselves with a rhetorical "very little.")

[detyabozhye]

True, but won't they care to see that it doens't have to be ugly?

[sloggerkhan]

You have a point. If open source apps were always pretty, it might help change such perceptions.