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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=img/icons/help.gif}
(http://themes.tikiwiki.org/img/icons/help.gif)
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 (?)

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!! See Also
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-directory_browse.php?parent=103
http://tikiwiki.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
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons_themes
        

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Mon 13 of Jun, 2016 05:21 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee URL commented out to fix 404 error. 26
Thu 21 of Mar, 2013 02:01 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 25
Wed 27 of Feb, 2013 00:23 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 24
Tue 19 of Feb, 2013 20:17 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 23
Wed 16 of Aug, 2006 12:39 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 22
Tue 15 of Aug, 2006 05:18 GMT-0000 Gary Cunningham-Lee Added Silk Icons license info. 21
Thu 10 of Aug, 2006 17:28 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 20
Thu 10 of Aug, 2006 15:55 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 19
Thu 10 of Aug, 2006 15:22 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 18
Thu 10 of Aug, 2006 15:12 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 17
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 09:25 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 16
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 08:54 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 15
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 08:54 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 14
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 08:37 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 13
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 08:15 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte !!Icon set listings 12
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 08:06 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 11
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 07:48 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 10
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 07:46 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 9
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 07:29 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 8
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 07:21 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 7
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 07:03 GMT-0000 luciash d' being ?‍♂️ 6
Mon 31 of Jul, 2006 04:41 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 5
Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:40 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 4
Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:35 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 3
Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:16 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 2
Sun 30 of Jul, 2006 14:12 GMT-0000 Marc Laporte 1