Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: The Floppy icon and meritocracy

Hello Pedro,

Le Wed, 8 Feb 2012 06:17:10 -0800 (PST),
Pedro <pedlino@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Charles-H.Schulz wrote
> > This being said and at the
> > risk of sounding evil and stubborn: FOSS has never been about
> > demoracy. It's limited democracy at best, that is, democracy
> > narrowed to a very defined set of decisions, with a strong
> > meritocracy making up for most of everything and *sigh* documented
> > processes. I'm afraid this time we skipped
> > the documented process part. Please bear with us ;-)
>
> I have to disagree with you. Maybe this is a reality for a large
> project such as LibreOffice. But I have collaborated (and still do)
> on FOSS projects that are mostly democratic. So this is not a
> characteristic of FOSS but maybe of large FOSS projects.


Do you have examples? I'd be happy to hear about them, I'm sure we work
in a very similar fashion...

best,
Charles. 

> In any case I managed to hack the Tango theme and replace the new
> icons with the old ones (BTW someone forgot to update the
> saveastemplate icons in the new Theme ;) )
>
> You can't use your old tango theme from 3.4.x because the folder
> structure has been changed between versions.
>
> So, if anyone is interested, it's freely available here
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2347109/images_tango.zip
>
> There are no virus or backdoors or whatnot (it just contains png
> images so it can not possibly contain any harmful code)
>
> You have to replace the old theme because for some odd reason the
> list of allowed themes seems to be hardcoded.
> Otherwise I would have called it old_tango, floppy_tango or
> stubborn_users'_tango :)
>
> For Windows user it should be placed at
> %ProgramFiles%\LibreOffice 3.5\share\config\images_tango.zip


Thank you for the tip!

Best,
Charles. 




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