[ubuntu-art] Proposal: Tangerine Icon Theme

[Andreas Nilsson]

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