Re: [kde-artists] User Icons

On Tuesday 03 January 2012 16:24:27 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> 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=fM4NS4n2Te
> > > qL&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???

The JPEGs are generated by Wuala's thumbnail view, the actual files 
are PNG and have no artifacts (I checked 'basketball' and 'bridge', 
those looked scary in the thumbnails view).

-- 
Christoph Feck
KDE Quality Team
http://kdepepo.wordpress.com/
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