Re: RFS: udav

[Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Salvatore Bonaccorso
<salvatore.bonaccorso@gmail.com> wrote:

> At this time I was again in contact with Alexey, the upstream author.
> He explained me the following regarding the icons:
>
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>> The "icon" udav.png is generated by UDAV itself (or via mgl2png, as
>> independent MathGL tool). The source code is in attachment. I can add
>> this script to the source archive too.

Please ask him to include the source and the instructions for
regenerating it in the tarball and VCS.

>> Other icons (for toolbars) I made by myself (arrows, cinema, options,
>> lighting and so on) but some of them (specifically
>> new/load/save/find/undo/redo/cut/copy/paste/help) I got from an icon
>> archive. Unfortunately, now I don't remember the source -- I'm ready
>> to replace it for any other similar icons.

OK, the "icon archive" ones are most likely quite problematic
(copyright Microsoft or something). Perhaps Qt provides a way to get
standard icons for the platform? Alternately depend on or use icons
from the tango icon library, which is now public domain:

http://tango.freedesktop.org/
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library

>> Most of pictures in help/pics/ was generated by UDAV itself -- it is
>> just color schemes. If you need I can provide the script(s) for its
>> generation. Some pictures (with symbols) was generated by latex --
>> when I port the documentation from latex-based to texinfo-based and/or
>> html-based.

Please ask him to include the source and the instructions for
regenerating them in the tarball and VCS. This includes the latex
source too.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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