Re: Padre, CC-SA-2.5 and Debian

[Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah@jeremiahfoster.com>]

On Dec 12, 2008, at 6:28 AM, Damyan Ivanov wrote:

> -=| Paul Wise, Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:20:58AM +0900 |=-
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>  
> > wrote:
> >
> > > And I still think it would be better if the icons are not shipped  
> > > with
> > > Padre. I have no idea, however, for a way to have cross-platform[1]
> > > access to a set of icons.
> >
> > How about at build/install time you download the required icons and
> > install them. For the distributions you can do ./configure
> > --with-distributor=Debian and then disable the icon downloading and
> > require the package to depend on the icons that you want?
>
> If you ask me (and I am not one of the upstream authors so I am only
> giving an advice here), having the 10 or so icons shipped with Padre
> is more reliable as a fallback. Download URLs change.
>
> --with-distribution implies that it would support every distribution
> around, plus solaris, MacOS, M$OS, even Plan9. Much better if is
> implemented as --with-icons-dir=/path instead.
I think shipping the icons included would be a good idea - it allows  
for a common look and feel for padre on a variety of platforms which  
makes life easier for users.

My friend Andreas pointed out that there is a a repository of icons  
drawn by the same people as the Tango icons but under a GPLv.2  
license, svn repo URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/

Jeremiah