[Amsn-devel] Branding - explanation

2007-04-10 Thread majinsoftware
I believe with GPL you are aloud to edit it but you still have to provide the source code for other people with the changes you made. Personally I wouldn't not like the name to be changed and can only suggest that you make your own skin for it. Instead of branding it why not just put a link on y

Re: [Amsn-devel] Branding - explanation

2007-04-10 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, First, please use the same thread for your subject instead of opening a new thread (use reply). About 'branding' aMSN : You can distribute aMSN with your own skin, which would make it have your own look and your own logo.. about changing the name from 'aMSN' to something else, I don't know a

[Amsn-devel] Branding - explanation

2007-04-10 Thread Fizul Sima
Sorry I was unclear. I would like aMSN to be branded (named) after my website talkingabout.com (under development) [ie: talkingabout.com messenger] and have my logo instead of aMSN's However, full credit remains to aMSN. IE: under help and About sections I would pay a fee for this and if requi

[Amsn-devel] new default skin

2007-04-10 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi Gus, The new default skin still has huge issue with the background.. this one is much lighter and much better.. but I think there are too many buddy icons in the background, it's not good.. at all... I think the pseudo-spiral you put on the side is good, but please remove the BG.. don't for

Re: [Amsn-devel] OT : gaim + aol = pidgin

2007-04-10 Thread Boris Faure (aka billiob)
On 4/10/07, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > someone at work just came by and told me about some issues gaim had.. Gaim > got sued by AOL because of the name > "gaim == gtk aim" and they were forced to change their names.. so name gaim > doesn't exist anymore.. it becomes > pidgi

[Amsn-devel] OT : gaim + aol = pidgin

2007-04-10 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, someone at work just came by and told me about some issues gaim had.. Gaim got sued by AOL because of the name "gaim == gtk aim" and they were forced to change their names.. so name gaim doesn't exist anymore.. it becomes pidgin! take a look at http://gaim.sf.net (which redirects to http:/

Re: [Amsn-devel] Display pictures and some skins

2007-04-10 Thread Youness Alaoui
ok.. Do you know since when the file was added ? was it always there ? I think the best thing to do is to move the nopic.png to the pixmaps directory since it's not a real display picture and because we use it as an 'image' to represent something (a user without dp).. what do you think ? move it

[Amsn-devel] Display pictures and some skins

2007-04-10 Thread Cristofaro Del Prete
Hi, the Emerald 2.0 skin (and the default one) includes a nopic.dat descriptor file for the nopic.png image. This is wrong, because nopic.png isn't a "real" display picture, but just an image to represent an user which hasn't a display picture. Including a descriptor file for it makes dpbrowser i