On ven, 2007-05-18 at 15:43 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > (sorry if double-posted, I had some email forwarding issues) > > Hellooo :) > > On 5/18/07, Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and > > > > tango > > > > artists to see if we can create a common icon set. > > > > > > I agree completely. > > > > > > I can see some applications still wanting to add their own themes for > > > somethings like smileys and status icons, but a theme that fits in with > > > the rest of the desktop would be really nice. > > > > > Pidgin has already been given a very nice tango icon set by the tango > > artists. So it could be just a matter to get them in the icon naming > > spec and putting them in gnome icon theme. > > > They are pretty nice, but I bumped into a problem this days... it's > not really serious but it would make a difference in certain > circumstances. > > I was talking with a friend on Yahoo and we started playing with the > emoticons of Pidgin. At first we didn't recognize some of the icons > because we were used to default Yahoo ones, but after some playing we > get used to the tango theme. > But then this idea hit us. If the person that I'm IM'ing is using the > Yahoo icons (on the official client or in an old Gaim or whatever), > how can I tell that the icon I'm seeing/sending means the same in the > other guy's screen?. > Maybe I send a "Weird" icon and in the other side it's understood as > "Holy cow!" because of the theme difference. > > It's not an issue exclusive to Pidgin or a possible gnome-im-icons, I > wanted to comment it anyway because it _makes_ a difference sometimes. >
I think the solution here is to have yahoo icons if it's possible by licences. Like that we can have icon names like "face-yahoo-something", "face-msn-something", etc... I'm not sure things like that should go to gnome-icon-theme even if it's ok for licences. If licences are a problem we can make a seperate package for yahoo/msn/etc icons like that distributions like ubuntu can have them in multiverse. Xavier. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
