On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:04 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Gilboa Davara <gilboad <at> gmail.com> writes: > > 2. The Fedora theme uses the Fedora icon as it's "start" button. I tried > > contacting the Fedora-legal theme and get their permission to use this > > icon - but got no replays. Do I require explicit permissions to use this > > icon? (I've got the same problem in RHEL/CentOS - but I'll ask the same > > question in the EPEL ML.) > > You cannot distribute the Fedora logo or the Red Hat red hat as part of your > theme. The logo has to be in the fedora-logos package (for RHEL, that would be > the redhat-logos package, but good luck getting an icon added there - most > likely it would only be added if your theme ends up in an RHEL release and so > the icon is needed, likewise centos-logos will probably only add the icon if > your theme is actually shipped in CentOS, not EPEL or something) and some > fallback has to be provided, either inside the theme if it is possible, or in > generic-logos. > > The way it's done in KDE 4 is that: > * kde-settings contains a Fedora-KDE icon theme which inherits from Oxygen and > which is shipped empty. So by default (*), you get the KDE logo from Oxygen as > the start button. Fedora-KDE is also set as the default icon theme for KDE by > kde-settings. > * fedora-logos drops the Fedora logo into that icon theme, so it overrides > Oxygen's KDE logo. > * In our case, no fallback icon is needed in generic-logos because icon theme > inheritance takes care of it automatically. > > (*) but that default is only invoked in the absence of fedora-logos > > One thing you can do for RHEL/CentOS (which should also work in Fedora) is to > find an icon in redhat-logos which has a fallback with the same file name in > generic-logos (and fedora-logos and centos-logos), then just symlink to that > and add a Requires: system-logos. But you can't use your own fallback (e.g. > IceWM logo) that way, you get whatever is in generic-logos. > > Kevin Kofler > Kevin, Thanks for the info. I'll give it a try. - Gilboa -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
