R.I.P. Gorilla
Someone asked me the other day if I plan to resume work on my pet project, Gorilla. I thought it’s worth replying in public.
Continuing to embrace the unique Gorilla style I would be undoing hundreds of hours of work we invested in the Tango project. I am happy to see people willingly or inadvertently staying within the boundaries set by the guidelines. There is nothing worse than getting a fan mail from someone who has assembled a “theme” composed of all the clashing styles you have created.
Gorilla, you’re my (the?) first SVG icon set, you are my darling. But the world is better without you. Rest in peace.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I has a sadness
September 14th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
If you’re lucky, you created the Comic Sans MS equivalent of icon themes
September 14th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
I really miss it, though the metacity theme was aweful
September 14th, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Such fond memories
September 14th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Alberto: It was. Only shows that execution is everything. Someone did a rather poor job porting it from sawfish.
September 15th, 2011 at 1:34 am
Please accept my condolence. I still remember the day with GNOME 2 where I was having fun with Gorilla, now you leave me for good… *burst out crying*…
@Jakub: Have you thought put this icon set up to github?
September 15th, 2011 at 5:00 am
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
http://nooooooooooooooo.com/
I loved, LOVED, LOOOVEEEDDDD gorilla. Best. Theme. Ever.
September 15th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!! Anyway, I really loved the theme.
September 15th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Ahhhh, those memories
It *was* funny, even it was regularly abused 
But it gave us, GNOME 1.4 and 2.0 users idea that icon sets can be stylish.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:39 am
by far my favorite theme…ever! nothing else compares. don’t say such things