Chaning the default icewm theme.

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Oct 20 10:44:30 UTC 2008


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?

> 
> 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.

> 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

> 3. I was thinking about circumventing the legal/distribution issue 

Don't circumvent it.

Rahul




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