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Subject:    Re: K-ARTIST: KDE default icon theme
From:       Wade Olson <wadejolson () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2004-10-28 19:07:24
Message-ID: 20041028190724.78075.qmail () web54405 ! mail ! yahoo ! com
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That's a good point, however this type of checklist could be considered the scrunity of work's
adherence to the AIG/CIG, among other elements.

The CIG doesn't cover licensing, artist availabilty, completeness, etc and likely shouldn't.  But
we certainly shouldn't be creating more criterium for its own sake.

AIG/CIG: How to do professional work
Guidelines: How to get that proessional work into KDE

As KDE has matured and gained success, it's sensible to think that a shift would be made from
begging artists to do any modicum of work in the past, to taking a critical eye to the volume of
existing and potential work (whether icons or screensavers or wallpapers or window decorations).

On the topic of waiting for a major release to implement an icon change:  It's a bit
counter-intuitive, but icons sets really do drive many other desktop presentation decisions (due
to work load).

Icons themes drive color palettes, themes, wallpapers, splash screens, and maybe even default font
choices.  Artists and distros need time to absorb and react.  And of course, most importantly (to
me), icon choices will hopefully drive the long-needed change to the outdated hi-color Control
Center panels (ooh, is that a 15" CRT and 2 MB GForce 2?)

Wade



--- Frans Englich <frans.englich@telia.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 28 October 2004 18:46, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> > * Wade Olson <wadejolson@yahoo.com> [Oct 28. 2004 20:34]:
> > > Recommendation:
> > > As 50 people could easily be found to support one stance or the other,
> > > any major icons shift should be based from guidelines such as:
> > >
> > > * licensing
> > > * consistency
> > > * completeness
> > > * maintainability
> > > * future plans
> > > * random sampling user polls if necessary
> > >
> > > Full icon sets are massive efforts and artists take a lot of pride in
> > > being the default for a desktop environment (and are fortunately a little
> > > bit less catty that models clamoring to be on a magizine cover, although
> > > none less prestigious!)
> > >
> > > So if this topic is pursued, let's attempt to avoid an internal
> > > popularity contest.
> >
> > Very well put. I agree 100%. Perhaps we should write up a checklist of
> > items that need to be satisfied before we will even consider including a
> > theme in KDE? The second part of that would be the extra things that are
> > necessary to become "default".
> >
> > All of this stuff should be going on the artists web page. I think that
> > we should make this a priority.
> 
> Isn't it best suited for the AIG/CIG?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 		Frans
> 
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