Chaning the default icewm theme.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:04 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > 2. The Fedora theme uses the Fedora icon as it's "start" button. I tried
> > contacting the Fedora-legal theme and get their permission to use this
> > icon - but got no replays. Do I require explicit permissions to use this
> > icon? (I've got the same problem in RHEL/CentOS - but I'll ask the same
> > question in the EPEL ML.)
> 
> You cannot distribute the Fedora logo or the Red Hat red hat as part of your 
> theme. The logo has to be in the fedora-logos package (for RHEL, that would be 
> the redhat-logos package, but good luck getting an icon added there - most 
> likely it would only be added if your theme ends up in an RHEL release and so 
> the icon is needed, likewise centos-logos will probably only add the icon if 
> your theme is actually shipped in CentOS, not EPEL or something) and some 
> fallback has to be provided, either inside the theme if it is possible, or in 
> generic-logos.
> 
> The way it's done in KDE 4 is that:
> * kde-settings contains a Fedora-KDE icon theme which inherits from Oxygen and 
> which is shipped empty. So by default (*), you get the KDE logo from Oxygen as 
> the start button. Fedora-KDE is also set as the default icon theme for KDE by 
> kde-settings.
> * fedora-logos drops the Fedora logo into that icon theme, so it overrides 
> Oxygen's KDE logo.
> * In our case, no fallback icon is needed in generic-logos because icon theme 
> inheritance takes care of it automatically.
> 
> (*) but that default is only invoked in the absence of fedora-logos
> 
> One thing you can do for RHEL/CentOS (which should also work in Fedora) is to 
> find an icon in redhat-logos which has a fallback with the same file name in 
> generic-logos (and fedora-logos and centos-logos), then just symlink to that 
> and add a Requires: system-logos. But you can't use your own fallback (e.g. 
> IceWM logo) that way, you get whatever is in generic-logos.
> 
>         Kevin Kofler
> 

Kevin,

Thanks for the info.
I'll give it a try.

- Gilboa