Andreas could you please fill out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkTeam/TangerineIcons explaining the situation, and listing you as responsible..?
As leader you might delegate it to Pascal now that he has joined the Tangerine project ;-P Cheers, Mikkel On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 18:49 +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > Thanks to Daniel's great work you can see the current progress and > > priorities of the Human theme, and how it looks next to the Tango and > > GnomeDefault icon themes. We will make sure that icons which Dave has > > published will move quickly into the Human theme so you can always see > > the latest work. > > > > I am writing to propose the creation of "Tangerine", a completely > > community-contributed and owned theme which would sit between Human > > and Tango in the theme order list. This would mean that icons which > > are NOT in Human but ARE in Tangerine would appear in preference to > > Tango or GnomeDefault icons. > > > > Tangerine would start out with a selection of Tango and GnomeDefault > > icons. If you see the current icon priority page has comments on the > > right hand bar, and many of them say "Use Gnome" or "Use Tango". > > That's my own personal selection as to which of the Gnome or Tango > > icons I think would look better given that we won't have time to > > create our own. > > > > Tangerine would be managed by the community as follows: > > > > - one person will be selected by the community to be the Tangerine Lead > > - up to three people will get direct write access to the repository > > - the rest of the community would contribute icons to those core > > theme writers, who would choose which icons go into Tangerine, using > > your own community processes > > > Hello Mark! > I can step up and maintain this, and I bet I have lapo with me on this, > however there are some problems. > Gnome-icon-theme is licensed under GPL, while Tango is licensed under > CC-SA and I'm not sure it is legally possible to create a theme with a > mishmash of licenses. It would probably be possible to keep the themes > in separate packages, delete icons like stock-save in tango and tangofy > that icon in gnome-icon-theme (and as tango depend on g-i-t it would > fall back to that and it would use the one from g-i-t). I'm not sure > that is a good solution though. > It would be nice to have some more info on why some icons in human or > gnome was chosen instead of the tango ones, so that we either can fix > this upstream or fix tango in dapper to use some better metaphors/styles. > - Andreas > -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
