Re: [kde-artists] User Icons

A Terça, 3 de Janeiro de 2012 10:31:12 Sebastian Kügler você escreveu:
> Hi Hermann,
> 
> On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 13:54:43 Hermann Thomas wrote:
> > thanks for your help, but It seems hopeless anyway. As long as Kim
> > Jong Ossi is the KDM Maintainer, there is no chance that anything will
> > happen.
> 
> What is the problem here exactly? (Please, without snarky insults, I'd like
> to get this stuff merged in as well.)
> 
> > I will try to contact the Kubuntu guys and try to get it at
> > least into a distribution. Maybe even the opensuse people. The Other
> > thing I will try is to get them into LightDM. That DM looks quite
> > promising.
> 
> That's a bad idea, distro-patches / changes generally make our lives
> harder, increase support load, increase packagers' workload, etc.
> 
> > The thing which bothers me most is the fact that the kde greeter is
> > one of the most important programs of KDE, yet the least developed in
> > the whole Desktop Market. This is due to the fact that its usually the
> > first program there is when you start your machine. That's why I cant
> > understand that some smartass like Ossi can just block up the
> > development.
> 
> Can you please back that statement up? Ossi has been maintaining KDM for
> years, and while he's not always easy to work with, KDM is a cornerstone in
> stability and security, mainly thanks to Ossi.
> 
> > I think the greeter need a maintainer by itself.
> > 
> > Anyway you can take the Icons I did so far with the copyright notice.
> > You must also, at least for one Version, take them as a set with no
> > other older Icons there where so far. That is the condition.
> > https://www.wuala.com/hermann.thomas/Fotos/kde/?key=fM4NS4n2TeqL&mode=gal
> > le ry
> 
> That condition is incompatible with the LGPL. This license allows you to
> combine the work with other works, that's one of the most important points.
> 
> UI-wise, I understand your concern (consistency and all that), but it
> breaks the license, so cannot be shipped with under this condition. Would
> you reconsider it? (We can still replace all older icons with newer ones,
> but it would mean breaking existing setups, which we generally don't do
> lightly.)
> 
> Cheers,


Also can you get a version without the jpeg compression artifacts???

-- 
oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures"

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