Re: [Gaim-cabal] Artists

[Luke S. <lsc...@us...>]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 07:53:22AM -0500, Tim Ringenbach wrote:
> Sean Egan wrote:
> > I've been talking with primarily two artists for the new artwork. Most
> 
> Remind me again why we're getting new artwork. How much of this is legal 
> and how much is just we want new art work?

A number of our graphics have questionable copyright status.  That
is, some of them we can say (were we to look through the commit
history, and track people down and such) this person drew this
picture, so even though it looks like a real one, it is ours.  For
others, we can be pretty sure though that the submitter just grabbed
them from a webpage out there.  This is particularly true of our
smileys.  We'd like to avoid any future trouble over artwork.

We also need at least some new artwork.  With a new name comes the
need for a new logo for example.

> 
> Maybe I'm alone in this, but I always liked the way the prpl icons 
> actually looked like the prpls they represented. It's interesting the 
> way purple comes in all shapes and colors ;)

I agree.  There should be some visual relationship between the prpl
icon and the prpl.

> 
> What do the different shapes and colors represent in Stephen's thing?
> Also, what did you tell each of these people? I noticed there's no prpl 
> in Stephen's, is that because he ignored you or because you didn't 
> mention that?
> 
> Stephen's also has the idle times in place of buddy icons like the small 
> list. I like the big list better. I fear that seeing the list type I 
> prefer might bias me in some way, where I might like the other one 
> better if it was in my preferred list type.
> 

I do not think we want to replace the prpl icon + overlays with a
status icon.  My instinct in looking at Stephen's is that this is
what he has done.

luke