Chaning the default icewm theme.

[Gilboa Davara]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I maintain the icewm package under both Fedora and EPEL.
> > A couple of months ago I modified an existing theme to mimic the look of
> > Clearlooks and I'm thinking about using it as the default theme in the
> > next release of IceWM for both platforms.
> 
> Why not something based on Nodoka instead?

To be honest, I don't really like Nodoka (/Ducks) - plus, while I did
find a good base for a Clearlooks theme made for Ubuntu (/Ducks once
again), I didn't really find anything that was even close to looking
like Nodoka. (Goes to check again)
Plus, at least for now, I rather have one theme across all platforms.

> 
> > 
> > A couple of problems/questions:
> > 1. Should I include the theme in the main icewm package and use it as
> > the default theme? The theme is rather small (~27K compressed. ~600K
> > expanded.)
> 
> Separate package is probably a good idea for people with other preferences.

OK. /-1 on the main package idea.
Though, I should add that:
A. icewm comes by default with a number of rather basic themes .
B. The default theme is rather... no-so-pretty. (RedHat Linux 4 anyone?)

> 
> > 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.)
> 
> Drop a mail to logo AT fedoraproject.org as indicated in 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Logo

Already did (twice?). Didn't really get an answer :(

> 
> > 3. I was thinking about circumventing the legal/distribution issue 
> 
> Don't circumvent it.

Lets try it again.
Assuming that my theme can auto-locate the distribution's logo and use
it. What's wrong with that? Legal issues aside, shouldn't icewm/CentOS
look somewhat different than icewm/RHEL or icewm/Fedora?

> 
> Rahul
> 

- Gilboa