Hey Jakub. <div>On 3/27/07, Jakub Steiner <<a href="mailto:jimmac@novell.com">jimmac@novell.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;"> On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 11:58 -0700, Christian Hammond wrote: > Hey everyone. > > As some of you are probably aware, we've been converting our icon > style in VMware Workstation 6 to match Tango in order to fit in better > with the desktop. So far, I think we've managed to make the people at > work who use and develop the Windows version of Workstation > jealous ;) > > We're gearing up for a release and need to know if there's anything > special we need to do to attribute Tango, as per the CC. We have a big > file that has the licenses and copyrights for all the open source > software we use, but is there anything else that is needed? Hi Christian. In the past we have asked projects using Tango icons to attribute the Tango project as a whole (as opposed to individual artists), linking to the Tango website.</blockquote><div> Okay, cool. That's what we have in our list so far. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Also, while the interface looks much nicer now, there are a couple of > icons that stand out as being very out of place. Not Tango icons, but > rather icons from one of Tango's fallback themes. Specifically, the > Favorites icon, USB icon and Memory icon (and a number of people have > commented about the Ethernet icon looking like a kitchen tool or > airplane toilet seat, but I'm less worried about that one). Tango > doesn't appear to have versions of these (correct me if I'm wrong > please, though my Ubuntu Feisty install doesn't show any). This is a > shame because the fallbacks just don't fit in. There is an icon for flash memory which in tango's base set looks like a generic memory module [1]. But as you want to use it as a fallback, I don't think that would be a good choice. Maybe we want to add a generic memory device icon name, Rodney?</blockquote><div> The flash memory icon actually looks quite well as a a generic memory icon. The fallback icons define a "devices/memory" icon that we're referencing. We actually are using a symlink to point to the flash memory right now and referencing that for our fallbacks (used if no icon theme defines "memory"), as it looks pretty close to a RAM stick :) (at least at 16x16).  </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">As for USB icon, you mean the USB logo? I wasn't able to find out the use terms on the <a href="http://usb.org">usb.org</a> website. It looks like the old 'hub' logo isn't being used these days anymore anyway. It will be very unlikely to have this defined in the naming spec though as 'usb device' is very vague and hardly a useful fallback.</blockquote><div> Having a generic "USB" icon is quite useful actually. While it's all well and good to have an icon for every type of USB device, you would want a fallback I would think, and sometimes you want to reference the concept of a USB device rather than specific USB devices. For us, it's a definite necessity, as we're indicating "USB support" rather than any one specific device. The icon is saying "You have support for USB for this virtual machine." CrystalSVG is defining a "usb" icon currently. This means that when Tango is selected, we get a really out of place (sort of ugly) icon instead of the one we're shipping. </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> In what context do you use Favorites icon? Wouldn't emblem-favorite work for you?</blockquote><div> A favorites list in the sidebar. emblem-favorite would work, but it seems wrong somehow to be using an emblem icon when you're not putting the emblem on anything, even if it is the right size. I would see a dedicated favorites icon being useful in sidebars, menu items, and buttons. For example, Gimmie has a button for Favoriting an item, and an emblem wouldn't necessarily make sense, imho. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The fact that you're using the style is more beneficial to the Tango project than the actual artwork (but sadly only for the Linux client, make the windows guys more jealous ;). Would you mind sending me some screenshots and allow us to put WMWare Worstation 6 in the 'Showroom' page?[2]</blockquote><div> Yeah, we figured though that we've benefited so much from Tango that we should give back anything we make that we can legally give back, with the hope that somebody else would also find it useful. We'd love to be in the showroom :). Here's a screenshot you can use: </div> <a href="http://osiris.chipx86.com/screenshots/ws6.png">http://osiris.chipx86.com/screenshots/ws6.png</a> That's probably the most interesting screenshot, as it has the largest collection of icons in one window, but if you want more I can take screenshots of some other dialogs. For reference, here's how it looks when using the USB, Memory and Favorites icons provided by Tango's fallbacks: <a href="http://osiris.chipx86.com/screenshots/ws6-tango-fallbacks.png">http://osiris.chipx86.com/screenshots/ws6-tango-fallbacks.png </a> Thanks, Christian </div> -- Christian Hammond - <a href="mailto:chipx86@chipx86.com">chipx86@chipx86.com</a> VMware, Inc.