Mozilla firefox gets the firebird icon when built and puts the mozilla icon in the menu.. The binary version on mozilla.org has the right icon (so it must be somewhere in the tree)....
Don't know how about the binary version, but the "sourced" one has also bad picture in the "About" dialog... ...anyway, I suspect this to be an upstream issue... Radek
I can confirm the issues with both the icon and the About logo. On a positive note: this Firefox ebuild does correctly import bookmarks and history from Firebird. Can I safely uninstall firebird now, while keeping these settings in Firefox? And did Firefox really have to be added as a separate package from Firebird? Is there not a more graceful way for Gentoo Portage to handle name changes within the same package? It's definetely not the first time that a project has undergone a name change.
I can also confirm the problem with the icons and the about box
The source tarball doesnt seems to have the right images... so its not gentoo specific.. but the gtk2+xft binary package does.. They f***ed up at moz.org...
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=50907&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15 They aren't allowing the official artwork into the non offical builds it seems.
Interesting thread on that forum, it seems that Gentoo would have to negociate something with mozilla.org to get the right to use the official artwork.. Or maybe use a different artwork for "un-approved" builds, if they ever make some.. Also, in this thread, its mentionned that the Qute theme is NOT free.. so the license of the mozilla-fire* ebuilds is wrong.. it should have the unknown qute license too.. Well, I suppose this bug becomes a "later"... and we should re-open when more appropriate "free enough to use it" artwork appears.... Or maybe just put Gentoo logos in there? (If they dont want their brand, lets use ours!)
This information is new to me. I knew the new artwork (as well as the new name) was copyrighted, but I had no idea they would be so strict regarding distribution with the sources. :( I agree with Olivier. If no agreement can be reached on using the official logo's, then using the Gentoo logo's instead would be a nice solution. :) Whatever the outcome, the old Phoenix/Firebird logo's have to go, IMHO.
I believe this one can be reopened. re c#6: The theme is no longer Qute, and the new theme has an open license, so that is no longer an issue. As far as I can tell, the mozilla-firefox ebuilds only patch one bug, and that is upstream (and fixed too). All that needs to be changed (as far as I can tell; it works locally) is "--enable-official-branding" needs added, then the artwork will be used. http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/licensing.html shows mozilla.org's policy on licensing. I believe it is unmodified, but even if it isn't, other distributions are allowed to use the artwork. Maybe someone from Gentoo can contact licensing@mozilla.org and see if they have issues.
What's the status regarding this? The "official" ebuilds still don't set the --enable-official-branding configure flag.
Created attachment 52277 [details, diff] adds USE flag for official artwork While this is still being sorted out (if at all), I have made a patch against the ~x86'ed firefox-1.0.1 ebuild that adds a USE flag [mozofficialartwork] to enable the offical artwork to be used for the icon, about screen, etc.
Is anyone looking into this? Firefox 1.5 isn't even called Firefox anymore without official branding.
