2026-10-13 · 94a7408
Tango Remixer Documentation

Build .svg and .qrc

python3 ./build_icons.py --included-icon-file included_icons.txt   # build .svg and .qrc into dist/
cat included_icons.txt | python3 ./build_icons.py --included-icon-file -   # the same, with the content on standard input
make viewer  # browse the source icon themes (submodules/, no build needed); listens on all interfaces, open one of the printed URLs
make homepage-build       # generate the website (this README + the icon viewer) into homepage/_build/; needs python3-markdown + python3-pygments (apt) or `pip install markdown pygments`, and rsvg-convert (apt: librsvg2-bin)
make homepage-dev-server  # the same, then serve it on port 8000 on every interface (as make viewer): http://127.0.0.1:8000/ or http://<this machine's IP>:8000/
make check-svg
   # list source SVGs that Inkscape draws but browsers do not (details: tools/fix_svg_for_browsers.py)
make fix-svg     # repair them in place
make clean   # delete dist/
make clean-tarballs    # delete all thirdparty tarballs (so that you can download again if you encountered fail)
python3 ./build_icons.py --help  # see other options

For how to use in Qt C++ project, see the following descriptions.

Build .svg and .qrc
About Tango Remixer

Tango Remixer

Remix Tango-flavoured icon themes into one XDG icon theme for Qt and GTK applications.

This page is README.md at commit 94a7408, generated 2026-10-13.

Source on GitHub
Credits
Written by
  • Tango Remixer: 80% are written manually, the rests are assisted by some LLMs. 100% fully-reviewed by human.
  • LSP server: 100% code are by LLM agent, with rough manual code review.
  • Homepage, Icon viewer: 100% code are written by LLM agent.
  • llselect (@llselect/core): the combo boxes in the Icon Viewer.
Documented by
README.md, which these pages are: rendered by Python-Markdown, its code coloured by Pygments.
Artwork by
Some extra icons and fixes in the forks the icons come from: Tango, Nome, Humanity.
The icon themes' authors
Tango, Nome and the others of Built-in Icon Themes and Licenses. Each with where its files are:
Clearlooks: Richard Stellingwerff, Daniel Borgmann
GNOME 2's theme and its Metacity window frame, redrawn here in CSS.
DMZ-White: Novell, Inc.
The mouse cursors, 2007–2010 (viewer/static/cursors/).
License
Tango Remixer: GNU General Public License, version 3
The build, the viewer, README.md and this website: see Licenses. gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0
Parts of this page under licenses of their own
The icons: each theme's own license
In Built-in Icon Themes and Licenses; the viewer's list, with where each theme's files are:
Mouse cursors, DMZ-White: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
© 2007–2010 Novell, Inc.; Debian's dmz-cursor-theme package.
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