<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 23, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Chris Van Patten wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">I'm interested in using Tango icons for the default icons with Synfig. Right now, our icon library is stylistically very disjointed, and not very appealing to the eye. Tango would help us solve this problem, and further we would be helping users who have used Tango-ized applications in the past transition into Synfig more easily.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR><BR>Unfortunately, as I know you all are aware, Tango icons (at least the default library) is licensed under the CC-SA license. I'm a huge fan of Creative Commons, I use it for my own films. However Synfig is GPL licensed and thus we cannot use the default library.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN><BR></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi Chris,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There's a solution that is slightly more involved, but solves a lot more in the long run. That's to switch to the icon naming spec and dynamic loading. The goal would be that once synfig is installed on a system with Tango icons installed, the end user would get those used without them having been distributed in synfig's package itself.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The Tango naming spec covers the basics:</DIV><DIV><A href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification">http://tango.freedesktop.org/Standard_Icon_Naming_Specification</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>There are some "Additional Sets"</DIV><DIV><A href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Additional_Sets">http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library#Additional_Sets</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The one of primary interest would be the ArtLibreSet</DIV><DIV><A href="http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet">http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet</A></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I am not a "Tango person" per se, but I am involved with icons and their usage. I'm working on implementing icon support in Inkscape ( <A href="http://www.inkscape.org">http://www.inkscape.org</A>/ ) to follow the Tango naming spec and to leverage the ArtLibreSet. I'm also the person adding icon-specific support in Inkscape. Anyway, I'm still halfway through doing Inkscape's "icon Tangofication", but it's the more grunt-work half of trying to reconcile the names and abstract concepts, etc. Having another art app as a consumer of the ArtLibreSet would be very good, and help all needed icons get listed in it.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>