Re: Licensing and appearance issues in file-roller app-specific themable icons

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Currently File Roller is providing some app-specific themable icons
> based on Tango icons (while installed in wrong path).
>
> Here is a bug ( http://bugs.gnome.org/362922 ) about license. Note that
> each icon is a  simple merge of file, folder, archive and arrows (see
> attachment) from Tango, and it's not mixing items with differente
> licenses.
>
> The only real issue, IMHO, is that while using the same style, Tango
> icons and GNOME icons are slightly different and it could be better use
> the gnome package-x-generic icon to draw File Roller specific icons.
>
> So, anyone interested in re-drawing them using stuff from
> gnome-icon-theme (fixing the license and appearance issues) and
> providing at all requested sizes (currently available only at 16x16 and
> 24x24)?
>
> Meanwhile I'll provide to fix installation path (as Epiphany does).
>
> The names of those icons are (from left to right in attached
> screenshot):
>         extract-archive		[Actions]
>         add-files-to-archive	  "   "
>         add folder-to-archive     "   "
>         preview-file              "   "
>   
I'll look into this.
- Andreas