On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I maintain the icewm package under both Fedora and EPEL.
> A couple of months ago I modified an existing theme to mimic the look of
> Clearlooks and I'm thinking about using it as the default theme in the
> next release of IceWM for both platforms.
Why not something based on Nodoka instead?
To be honest, I don't really like Nodoka (/Ducks) - plus, while I did
find a good base for a Clearlooks theme made for Ubuntu (/Ducks once
again), I didn't really find anything that was even close to looking
like Nodoka. (Goes to check again)
Plus, at least for now, I rather have one theme across all platforms.
>
> A couple of problems/questions:
> 1. Should I include the theme in the main icewm package and use it as
> the default theme? The theme is rather small (~27K compressed. ~600K
> expanded.)
Separate package is probably a good idea for people with other preferences.
OK. /-1 on the main package idea.
Though, I should add that:
A. icewm comes by default with a number of rather basic themes .
B. The default theme is rather... no-so-pretty. (RedHat Linux 4 anyone?)
> 2. The Fedora theme uses the Fedora icon as it's "start" button. I
tried
> contacting the Fedora-legal theme and get their permission to use this
> icon - but got no replays. Do I require explicit permissions to use this
> icon? (I've got the same problem in RHEL/CentOS - but I'll ask the same
> question in the EPEL ML.)
Drop a mail to logo AT
fedoraproject.org as indicated in
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo
Already did (twice?). Didn't really get an answer :(
> 3. I was thinking about circumventing the legal/distribution issue
Don't circumvent it.
Lets try it again.
Assuming that my theme can auto-locate the distribution's logo and use
it. What's wrong with that? Legal issues aside, shouldn't icewm/CentOS
look somewhat different than icewm/RHEL or icewm/Fedora?
Rahul
- Gilboa