Hi. I'm a little concerned that the VM icons won't really shout out "Virtual machines!" to people. I assume the basis for these icons is the old VMware Workstation icon (which is being completely redone for Workstation 6.0). The problem is that a computer next to a monitor doesn't imply virtual machines in any way, and I think it would take a little outside the box thinking to come up with an icon that signifies this while staying product-independent. I'm working on trying to get most of the Tango icons for VMware released under the CC, though it'll take some time to go through legal. However, trademarks are an issue, so I don't know that we'll actually be able to contribute back our VM or product icons. The logo is of course the key problem, as people technically need a license to reproduce it (as with any company's trademark). I think there could also be a potential issue with basing something off of our old logo (as generic as it looked) and then sticking our competitors' logos inside of it in place of our own. Which should be fine, they should all look unique anyway, imho. This should just be taken as constructive criticism. As the unofficial icon guy for VMware Workstation 6, I kind of have an interest in seeing good, well-thought out Tango icons for things related to virtual machines. I'd like to see something good that we could potentially reuse in the future. However, I'm not sure creating a generic VM icon is the right way to go about this. A VMware VM is very different from a Xen VM, which is very different from a Parallels VM. They should probably end up looking unique (assuming we're talking about files). Things aren't at a stage yet where everybody can use everybody else's VMs, and I don't know that it'll get there any time soon, so it's probably best to distinguish them. (Insert obligatory IANAL here, these are my personal opinions, etc.) Christian <div>On 1/18/07, jEsuSdA 8) <<a href="mailto:jesusda@gmail.com"> jesusda@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Some virtualmachine icons. A generic one, VMware, VirtualBox and Qemu. Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8) -- _______________________________________________ Tango-artists mailing list <a href="mailto:Tango-artists@lists.freedesktop.org">Tango-artists@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/tango-artists</a> </blockquote></div> -- Christian Hammond - <a href="mailto:chipx86@chipx86.com">chipx86@chipx86.com</a> VMware, Inc.