Re: [gNewSense-users] [artwork] GTK engines!

[Dave Crossland]

On 10/11/06, Janet Hawtin <address@hidden> wrote:
> The murrine stuff looks great.
> Its the right flavour of free?

Its GPL according to http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=45419

> Im not experienced in this stuff but was wondering if
> we could have some kind of process thingo.

Do you mean "All themes must be Free Software"?

> 1. How do you tell if a theme is the right kind of free
> and safe to incorporate, ie traps for new players.

Check it uses a FSF approved Free license - see
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for details

> 2. How do you contribute new icons to suit a theme.

The best way would be to contribute them to the theme you are working from.

I really like the Tango Project's work - http://tango.freedesktop.org/

> How do we make it easy for people to make more murrine-ness.
> ie perhaps we should be coming up with a way that we show people
> how to use x or y flavour as templates or processes for making new icons.

Yes, contributing documentation to the Murrine project would be nice
if we use it :-)

> So for me murrine is nice, theres bound to be people wanting different flavours,
> is it an issue of deciding if cairo is the one true way or is it possible to
> have a mix of technologies or looks and still be compliant/easy to use etc.

It is very easy to change themes, so I hope we can include a
selection, just as Ubuntu does.

The important thing is to make the default one the nicest :-)

> How do we make it easy for people to see which technologies and themes are safe
> and easy to contribute to?

I'm not sure.

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Regards,
Dave