Re: [NEW ICONS] video-display

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).

Having said all this, I like the new icon theme, and am glad to see some 
excellent work being done on it once again.

-Thomas