Re: Icons for IM programs

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 5/18/07, Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com> wrote:
> On ven, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
> > (sorry if double-posted, I had some email forwarding issues)
> >
> > Hellooo :)
> >
> > On 5/18/07, Jaap Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and tango
> > > > > artists to see if we can create a common icon set.
> > > >
> > > > I agree completely.
> > > >
> > > > I can see some applications still wanting to add their own themes for
> > > > somethings like smileys and status icons, but a theme that fits in with
> > > > the rest of the desktop would be really nice.
> > > >
> > > Pidgin has already been given a very nice tango icon set by the tango
> > > artists. So it could be just a matter to get them in the icon naming
> > > spec and putting them in gnome icon theme.
> > >
> > They are pretty nice, but I bumped into a problem this days... it's
> > not really serious but it would make a difference in certain
> > circumstances.
> >
> > I was talking with a friend on Yahoo and we started playing with the
> > emoticons of Pidgin. At first we didn't recognize some of the icons
> > because we were used to default Yahoo ones, but after some playing we
> > get used to the tango theme.
> > But then this idea hit us. If the person that I'm IM'ing is using the
> > Yahoo icons (on the official client or in an old Gaim or whatever),
> > how can I tell that the icon I'm seeing/sending means the same in the
> > other guy's screen?.
> > Maybe I send a "Weird" icon and in the other side it's understood as
> > "Holy cow!" because of the theme difference.
> >
> > It's not an issue exclusive to Pidgin or a possible gnome-im-icons, I
> > wanted to comment it anyway because it _makes_ a difference sometimes.
> >
>
> I think the solution here is to have yahoo icons if it's possible by
> licences. Like that we can have icon names like "face-yahoo-something",
> "face-msn-something", etc...
>
> I'm not sure things like that should go to gnome-icon-theme even if it's
> ok for licences.
>
> If licences are a problem we can make a seperate package for
> yahoo/msn/etc icons like that distributions like ubuntu can have them in
> multiverse.
Good idea, like the gstreamer-plugins, -ugly, -bad, -good, etc.

> Xavier.
>
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