[Tango-artists] Tango in Wine

[Andreas Nilsson]

Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking at Wine right now, and wondering about the icon set. As you
> might be able to see from the attached image, it's a really mixed back
> of styles. There's been some discussion in the Wine list lately about
> transitioning the menu icons, to Tango: 
>
> http://yokozar.org/blog/content/icons/wine.svg
> http://yokozar.org/blog/content/icons/wine-notepad.svg
> http://yokozar.org/blog/content/icons/wine-winecfg.svg
> http://yokozar.org/blog/content/icons/wine-winefile.svg
> http://yokozar.org/blog/content/icons/wine-uninstaller.svg
>
> My question is about the embedded icons - e.g. the mydocs.ico,
> mycomputer.ico, desktop.ico etc. These icons appear when you go into the
> file dialogs, and right now they look nasty - especially in 16x16px.
>
> A few months back I discussed moving Wine over to icons from the
> standard Tango icon set. The main sticking point seemed to be the
> licensing conflict between CC and Wine's GPL. Is there are way around
> this?
>
> I'm wondering if anyone here is interested in getting involved. It would
> be a job involving some fresh art, and some discussion about the
> licensing issue.
>   
The tango-icon-theme set is now Public Domain, so you can do whatever 
you want with it.
- Andreas