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</a>><br>Date: 26 Sep 2006 11:03:22 PDT<br>Subject: InfoWorld: Graphic eye for the open source guy<br>To: <a href="mailto:M00NJAL@gmail.com">M00NJAL@gmail.com</a><br><br></span>========================================================================
<br>OPEN ENTERPRISE: NEIL MCALLISTER <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/">http://www.infoworld.com/</a><br>========================================================================<br>Tuesday, September 26, 2006
<br><br>GRAPHIC EYE FOR THE OPEN SOURCE GUY<br><br><br>By Neil McAllister<br><br>Posted September 25, 3:00 a.m. Pacific Time<br><br>There's no shortage of open source programmers out there. According to a<br>recent study of 5,000 developers by the research firm IDC, fully 71
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http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?r=314&ctl=141F391:EA13479B8966009F6606C9A0A068E878EFF29049075316B4</a><br>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --<br><br>Outside of coding, however, few fields of endeavor have embraced open
<br>source practices on their own. Last week I mentioned how Sun and others<br>have begun experimenting with open source practices for chip design, but<br>if you stray from the realm of computing, you'll be hard pressed to find
<br>examples of similar principles in practice.<br><br>Graphic artists and designers, in particular, seem resistant to the idea<br>of community collaboration. Sure, there are Creative Commons licenses<br>available, but I haven't seen many examples of them in action among the
<br>graphic arts community. Where they are employed, they're usually applied<br>to complete works by a single author.<br><br>But what about the other, more mundane applications of graphic design?<br>Think about the icons, wizards, menus, templates, and other graphic
<br>elements that go into the applications you use every day. Nobody wins<br>any accolades for drawing the picture of a globe that you click on when<br>you want to add a hyperlink to your word processor document. And yet,
<br>today's GUI applications need these kinds of contributions almost as<br>much as they need the program code underneath.<br><br>The Firefox Web browser is one of the most popular open source<br>applications in use today, in addition to being one of the best funded
<br>and best marketed. And yet, even Firefox has struggled to add graphic<br>polish to its menus and widgets.<br><br>For a while, the default user interface theme for Firefox was a set of<br>icons called Qute, designed by Arvid Axelsson. When the Firefox team was
<br>unable to reach agreement with Axelsson about licensing terms for his<br>copyrighted artwork, however, Qute was withdrawn and replaced with a<br>different (and arguably ...<br><br>More of this column at:<br><a href="http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?r=314&ctl=141F390:EA13479B8966009F6606C9A0A068E878EFF29049075316B4">
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