[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8027: Replace default smileys with ones from Tango icon set

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#8027: Replace default smileys with ones from Tango icon set
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 Reporter:  JeremyVisser  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  low           |   Milestone:  2.8      
Component:  General       |     Version:  2.7      
 Severity:  minor         |    Keywords:           
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 The current smileys used in !WordPress are antiquated, non-antialiased,
 and ugly.

 The smiley for ;) hardly looks like it is winking, and is hard to
 recognise as a wink for the first time without looking closely. Now that I
 am familiar with the smiley, I recognise it, but for somebody that has not
 been on a !WordPress blog before may have trouble recognising it at first.

 For this reason, I propose replacing the current set of smileys with ones
 from the [http://tango.freedesktop.org/ Tango Desktop Project's] icon set.

 The Tango Desktop Project is an initiative started around three years ago
 that aimed to improve the icon styling and consistency of free software
 projects. They provide a reference implementation of their style guide in
 the form of an icon set, which contains many beautiful icons, including a
 set of smileys.

 In their [http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library icon library],
 you can view a [http://tango.freedesktop.org/images/2/20/Tango-feet.png
 picture] of what their icons look like. You can plainly see that this is
 an improvement over !WordPress' current icons.

 [[Image(http://tango.freedesktop.org/images/2/20/Tango-feet.png)]]

 These icons could even be used in the new dashboard redesign, but they
 would probably have to be recoloured.

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