2026-10-13 · 94a7408
Tango Remixer Documentation

Quick Start

Prerequisites

  • Python >= 3.13
  • Inkscape

Steps

  1. Clone this repository into your project repository via git clone --recursive git@github.com:kuanyui/tango-remixer.git and add it as git submodule.
  2. Write included_icons.txt according to "included_icons.txt Reference"
  3. Execute python3 ./build_icons.py --included-icon-file ./included_icons.txt in your building procession.

Tip

You can see the source code of QKiSS to know how to integrate Tango Remixer into a Qt 6 + CMake project. After all, in the very beginning, Tango Remixer was developed specially for QKiSS.

Quick Start
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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