Rodent is unmaintained, has few icons (maybe it would integrate best with those - admittedly nice - old icon themes from GNOME Art, like Gorilla etc. but is very inconsistent with current 'gnome' icon theme and IIRC even with Tango) and misses a couple of icons that Xfce 4.10 needs (system-suspend and system-hibernate). elementary-xfce, from the Shimmer Project ( https://github.com/shimmerproject/elementary-xfce ) is a good replacement, if the upstream authors agree and if it makes sense to keep an xfce4-icon-theme.
(In reply to comment #0) > Rodent is unmaintained, has few icons (maybe it would integrate best with > those - admittedly nice - old icon themes from GNOME Art, like Gorilla etc. > but is very inconsistent with current 'gnome' icon theme and IIRC even with > Tango) and misses a couple of icons that Xfce 4.10 needs (system-suspend and > system-hibernate). > > elementary-xfce, from the Shimmer Project ( > https://github.com/shimmerproject/elementary-xfce ) is a good replacement, > if the upstream authors agree and if it makes sense to keep an > xfce4-icon-theme. Agreed. It would be very nice to see elementary-xfce as the default icon theme.
Agreed
Indeed, elementary-xfce is one of the many great creations of the Shimmer Project, and I support the idea of making it default, provided there are no issues and maintenance is feasible.
I think is better create a new one, or update the rodent, because is nothing new the elementary's icons, I'm working in one http://xfce-look.org/content/show.php/Cluster?content=160861, but is still incomplete but is something new, I think there are so much people that they will like to work in the oficial icon theme for xfce. I offer to update the Rodent icon theme.
I don't think this is possible because elementary includes a lot of unfree (defacto illegal icons). For example Adobe logos/icons can only be uses under some guidelines: http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/icons-web-logos.html >You may not alter the Adobe PDF file icon in any manner, including size, >proportions, colors, elements, and so forth, or animate, morph, or otherwise >distort its perspective or appearance. this makes almost all pdf mimetype icons under linux illegal :/ Sure, it might be surreal to sue a whole project for icons but you never know what company's do when they need money ( http://trademarkem.com/chrome-turf-war-did-google-abandon-chromium-trademark ), so why not just adopt Tango and extend it? It doesn't include any trademarks and is public domain.
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