On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:55:28AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:50:28PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > This adds an icon to each Operating System section in the > > Details->Overview pane. If inspection completes while a guest's > > Details window is open, then the icon updates itself(!) > > > > Screenshots: > > > > http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/vmm-with-logo.png > > http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/vmm-with-logo-2.png > > > > The icons are taken from either Wikipedia or the upstream project and > > resized to 32 px width by myself. You may be wondering about the > > legality of including these trademarked icons in Fedora packages, and > > I was too. I asked Fedora Legal for a verdict with no reply yet: > > > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2011-April/001604.html > > It seems pretty discouraging > > "The complete answer here is not simple, but I can give you a simple one: > > * Don't do it. It would not be acceptable for Fedora. Use the word marks > instead. > > Let me know if that is not sufficient and you want the more complete > answer." > > > Could we side-step the entire issue, by actually using libguestfs to > extract an icon file from the guest OS image. Most OS installs include > some kind of theme with icons/graphics in their default install set. > It won't work 100% of the time, but perhaps it'd work often enough to > be viable.
As an example, Fedora includes /etc/favicon.png which is apparently intended to be an admin customization point[1]. It'd be kinda neat to pull this out & display it, so virt-manager shows whatever the guest admin has assigned for that guest. Daniel [1] http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/19030.html -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| _______________________________________________ virt-tools-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list
