Rodney Dawes wrote:
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.
But presumably they no longer conform to the style guidelines in the
hig? I know the hig is only a guideline, but presumably we need to
make sure the icon theme and the default theme aren't starting to move
apart in terms of colours e.t.c.
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.
If it's a licensing issue, then that makes a little more sense. The
GNOME icon theme definitely needs to stay GPL until the issues about
Creative Commons et al are resolved.
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.
I would actually be in favour of keeping the GNOME icon theme (and
most definitely in its simplified form). Licensing is going to be one
issue, but I think it doesn't actually help tango if it became the
default theme/style in GNOME (e.g. "I'm not using it, it's a GNOME
project!").
I also think it would be helpful if GNOME could retain some of it's
distinctive style. We're already going to be looking into making sure
the default theme stays within the current hig guidelines, so it would
be nice if the icon theme would too (i.e. using current hig colours).
