Re: [NEW ICONS] video-display

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 20:14 +0000, Thomas Wood wrote:
> Personally, I'd like to see GNOME have it's own distinctive style, but 
> I can't see how we could achieve this if we are adopting tango's style.

I think you here, like others often do, are missing the point of the
style guidelines entirely. Look at gnome-icon-theme HEAD, and compare
it to Tango. You'll see the icons are all pretty much still different,
but they don't have horribly conflicting styles.

Personally, I would much rather avoid maintaining multiple icon themes
with different licensing schemes. And I'm sure that the artists would
also like to avoid maintaining them, for the licensing reasons, as well
as having to maintaing multiple versions of the same icon for different
themes.

I don't think we should just push to supplant gnome-icon-theme with the
Tango theme. At least, not yet. Keeping gnome-icon-theme around is a
good point to tilt gnome in the direction of the naming spec, and get
the applications migrated. Maybe if we're migrated well enough that we
can get rid of the need for symlinks, by say, 2.16, we can perhaps then
propose to just use the Tango theme for 2.18. I imagine there are still
licensing issues involved though. People do not seem to be taking well
to the fact that the Tango theme is CC-By-SA.

-- dobey