Re: [kde-artists] User Icons

A Terça, 3 de Janeiro de 2012 22:24:00 Christoph Feck você escreveu:
> 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).

super cool thanks, was cocerned :) 

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Nuno Pinheiro | [email protected] | UI Designer 
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, a KDAB Group company
KDAB - Qt Experts - Platform-independent software solutions

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