Buchan Milne wrote:
> Austin Acton wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 06:59, Buchan Milne wrote:
> >
> >>I prefer KDE icons to GNOME icons personally.
> >
> >
> > The new SVG based icons look amazing on GNOME2.
>
> But all the good themes were ripped from KDE ;-).

Maybe there, but that's where the action is taking place. Personally, I find
that Red Hat's Bluecurve icons are perhaps the finest all-around for clarity
and clean lines.

IIRC, they were previously licensed to be Red Hat-only (the artist being on
their payroll). Does anyone know if that's changed now that Fedora is out?
It would be great to have those in contrib.

> > http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/theme.php
>
> OK, Amaranth and Wasp look decent

D'oh! That reminds me that G�tz is waiting for me on a bug report. The Wasp
icon set is woefully incomplete, being based on a set that in turn was based
on BeOS and only done in the designer's free time.

> > http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/images/spheresandcrystal.png
>
> Also partly a Crytal rip ... anyway, I believe the KDE3.2 versions of
> crystal are SVG (for KDE3.1 I believe they were rendered to PNG from the
> SVG?).

Crystal icons were originally bitmapped, then Everaldo made a bitmapped
version rendered from SVG ("Crystal SVG", natch). KDE 3.2 will use a hybrid
SVG/bitmap that allows optimization at small sizes. Nifty.

cf. http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=190

- John

P.S. Buchan, good luck in South Africa v England tomorrow...



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