History: Open Source Icons
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-=About=-
We need to get rid of some closed source and ugly icons and choose/create some consistent iconset for Admin panels and other icons.
For example, this icon:
{img src=img/icons/help.gif}
(http://themes.tikiwiki.org/img/icons/help.gif)
It seems to be an icon taken from WindowsXP and converted to gif which brings licensing issue.
-=Main Story=-
Preferred format should be indexed (max. 256 colors) or alpha transparent PNGs with background colour set to white (when alpha it renders with white background in MSIE, instead some ugly grey or black background). Also when PNG is in indexed palette of same colour amount it gives better compression results than traditional GIF.
!! Freely Available Iconsets (must be LGPL or compatible to be shipped with Tiki)
!!! Crystal Clear by Everaldo
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25668
!!! Icons for Tiki by G. Ferreira
[http://tikiwiki.org/gferreira_IconsTikiwiki]
License: Unknown
!!! Nuvola by David Vignoni
{img src=http://www.kde-look.org/content/pre1/5358-1.png}
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=5358
License: LGPL
!!! Tango Iconset
[http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery]
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
!!! Mark James.
http://www.famfamfam.com/
License: ?
!! See Also
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=103
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=IconReview
!! Resources
[http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html|Icon Naming Specification]
!!Icon set listings
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-Environment/Icons/
http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/
http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/resources/icons
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons_themes