On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:35:48PM -0400, Michael F. Lamb wrote: > I respectfully disagree. I do not think the default icon set and themes > from GNOME and KDE upstream are adequate. I feel the advantages of a > "very polished" and uniform look in the default Etch desktop is more > important than screenshot consistency or consistency with other > distributions.
I wasn't aware you wanted to have a single Icon theme for both KDE and GNOME. (Ubuntu doesn't have that either, AFAIK) > Before more deliberation, I must acknowledge that I'm just one opinion > out of so many, and a newbie to participating in these discussions, at > that. So instead of more blather, perhaps I should simply ask: > 1. Is there room for debate? Is discussion constructive, or annoying? :-) Sure. > 2. How do these sort of decisions normally get made when there is a > difference of opinion? > 3. In the end, who has the final say? I guess the GNOME and KDE teams, respectively, should have a strong voice in this. We should not overrule their veto of new icon sets or engine defaults. > But, I think that if someone *does* come up with a "100% coverage" icon > set and a GTK/KDE/GDM/etc theme that is "better" or more "Debian > flavored" than the upstream default, it should be not be ignored as a > candidate for Debian's default desktop. I think what Ubuntu has done in > this regard (orange-coloring some stock icons, Ubuntu logo in the panel) > demonstrates the power of a "polished" feel. OK, but they only changed a select few icons, and did not create a whole new set AFAIK (On the other hand, Fedora seems to be doing that for their next release) > The CC-licensed icons themselves aside, will Etch follow the > freedesktop.org icon naming spec and icon theme spec? I am not sure; again this probably depends on the GNOME and KDE desktops themselves, and whether the version we will ship with etch does that upstream. I am no expert on this, though. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
