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=https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=55}
(http://themes.tikiwiki.org/https://themes.tiki.org/show_image.php?id=55)
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.

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!! Freely Available Iconsets (must be LGPL or compatible to be shipped with Tiki)
!!! Crystal Clear by Everaldo
{img src=img/wiki_up/sshot21.png}
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=25668
License: LGPL
See also: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Crystal_Clear_icons

!!! 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
Pros: very professionaly done
Cons: someone may find them too colourful (candy)

!!! Tango Iconset
[http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery]
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license

!!! Mark James - Silk Icons
[http://www.famfamfam.com/]
License: [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/|Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License]

!!! Monochrome Icons
{img src=img/wiki_up/sshot19.png}
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=18317
License: LGPL
Pros: very accessible, could be used together with gferreira icons
Cons: someone may find them ugly
Note: Coloured version is called "Primary" and can be found here:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=39469

!!! Glaze Icons
{img src=img/wiki_up/sshot20.png}
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=23966
License: LGPL

!!! Jini Iconset
mose found some LGPLed iconset on art.gnome.org too, which is called Jini (?)

!!! game-icons.net
http://game-icons.net/

!!! Font Awesome
The iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/

!!! Iconic
[http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/|Iconic is an open source icon set consisting of 171 marks in raster, vector and font formats.]

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!! See Also
http://tiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=103
http://tiki.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
~tc~http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons_themes (Commented out due to 404 error.~/tc~