RFC: Wine Icons

Roderick Colenbrander thunderbird2k at gmx.net
Sat Dec 13 11:35:21 CST 2008


> > Joel Holdsworth <joel at airwebreathe.org.uk> writes:
> > 
> > > Yes I agree it would be good for the icons to get some improvement.
> Some
> > > of the ones there currently are pretty poor. We really need to try and
> > > get as much consistency as we can. I really would encourage you to go
> > > for tango if you can. It's served ReactOS well. It might even be
> > > possible for me to help with making custom Tango icons.
> > 
> > Last I checked the Tango icons are under a Creative Commons license that
> > is not compatible with the LGPL, so I'm afraid it's not an option.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Alexandre Julliard
> > julliard at winehq.org
> > 
> 
> At this point Tango is Creative Commons but according to a post on their
> mailing list they are planning to move to public domain.
> (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/tango-artists/2008-September/001890.html) Further there
> are some more licensing discussions. I doubt their intension is to not
> allow open source projects not to use their icons. We could ask them to
> relicense them.
> 
> Roderick

After thinking a bit more about it I think we can use the Tango icons in their current form. To me it sounds like the main issue is that we need to merge the icons into our own dlls. Windows XP style themes allow you to replace icons. If we would improve our theming code, so that we can use icons from theme files then we would be able to use the tango icons.

Roderick
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