[indiana-discuss] [desktop-discuss] CD Space analysis and recommendations

[Calum Benson]

On 13 Aug 2008, at 21:34, Mark Phalan wrote:

> Can't a single "full" theme be delivered minus all the redundancy? If
> Nimbus doesn't have some icons then beef it up with icons from the
> others and drop the rest.

Technically possible I would think, yes-- would need to check that all  
the themes we were borrowing from had a licence that allowed us to mix- 
and-match their icons with Nimbus, though.

The main drawback would probably be the effort in creating such a  
theme in the first place, and then maintaining it, especially when  
either:

* the themes we were borrowing from were updated (which wouldn't be a  
strictly necessary activity, I suppose, but then our mega-Nimbus would  
potentially look less polished than the current Nimbus)

* we decide one day that it would be visually more appealing to fill  
in the gaps from some other theme(s) than the ones we originally picked.

Speaking as a maintainer of a couple of the current GNOME icon themes,  
I know how much of a chore it is to make even relatively simple  
changes to them; making sweeping changes is a bit like sticking  
needles in your eyes.  So I suspect this isn't a change we'd consider  
doing lightly... but I'm not the Nimbus maintainer, so it's not for me  
to say :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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