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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] Crystal Clear release!
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2005-06-24 7:38:08
Message-ID: 42BBB860.2010704 () acm ! org
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Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>KDE wants only icons to be submitted *with* SVGs or some other form of
>>source. In the end, if it doesn't come down to legal issue, it is our
>>express wish *not* to include any icons without what we define as a form
>>of acceptable source. The reasoning behind this is as follows: with
>>pixel images you can only perform a minor amount of madification, and
>>taking something away from a pixel image is a) extremely hard and b) will
>>need to be done again and again for every form of transformation.
>>
>>Pushing pixels is simply out. In order to allow the whole ccommunity to
>>help with the effort of completing an icon set for KDE we simply need to
>>have some kind of source more than the final PNG file.
> 
> 
> That's why I disagree with the commit of the latest icons for kdegames.
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=111953209913961&w=2
> 
> Because it is not what KDE agreed to do a few months ago.
> 
> I ask again this commit to be REVERSED in order not to be the open door to 
> oldish issues we tried to solve (no licence and no source). Allowing this 
> commit is allowing any icons for kde 3.5 without source as defined by Kenneth 
> above. Allowing this commit is against the agreement KDE people reached 
> previously.

I agree that we should have SVGs for all new icons _if_possible_.  Here, 
I did want to add my $0.02.  I have made icons which are derivatives of 
icons that don't have SVGs.  So, here it isn't possible to provide SVGs.

Specifically, I did HiColor:

	show_side_panel
	view_fit_height
	view_fit_width
	view_fit_window

And I did not supply SVGs.  The "view_fit_*" icons are derived from 
"empty" and there is no HiColor SVG or other source.  So, I can't make 
SVGs.  The first one (show_side_panel) also derived, but I think that I 
can make an SVG of it.  So, this is the situation with Crystal as well. 
  There are derivative works from icons where there isn't an SVG and so 
they don't have SVGs.  So, I suggest that we add the "if possible" to 
the policy.

Note that in Crystal, there is an SVG for "empty" so I have made SVGs 
for the "view_fit_*" icons.

-- 
JRT
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