[ubuntu-art] Proposal: Tangerine Icon Theme

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

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
>