[ubuntu-art] Proposal: Tangerine Icon Theme

[Andreas Nilsson]

Sure. Sorry for lagging behind with this a bit, just came back from LGM 
in Lyon.
I'll fix the wiki as soon as possible.
- Andreas

Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> 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:
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>> Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
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>>> 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
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