Re: FVWM: Screen shot submission

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 17:07:18 +0000

On 07 Nov 2001 14:26:16 +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 01:28:05PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Riswick, J.G.A. van wrote:
> >
> > > I'd like to submit a screen shot of my setup for the fvwm site.
> > > The image, thumbnail and description are here:
> > >
> > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/j_g_a_van_riswick-desk-1152x864.gif
> > > http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvanr/j_g_a_van_riswick-desk-1152x864.txt
> >
> > They look really nice!
> >
> > Did you use the *.dp palette format (from CDE)?
>
> I don't know if palettes can be copyrighted, but CDE definitely
> is. Therefore I once made the effort to manually find colours
> that are similar to the CDE colours and renamed the resulting
> palettes slightly to avoid copyright problems. I believe these
> palettes have become part of the "luthien" theme in fvwm-themes.

Yes, and *.dp color schemes are part of the "cde" theme.
I don't think using 8 colors from CDE is not a fair use.
Anyway good *.dp files can be easily generated or even auto-generated.

BTW, the original Dominik's setup and palletes are also available here:

  http://fvwm-themes.sourceforge.net/data/samples/domivogt/

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed Nov 07 2001 - 11:07:21 GMT

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