standardizing odf icons?

[Louis Suarez-Potts <Louis.Suarez-Potts@Sun.COM>]

I've been in communication with a friend interested in standardizing  
the icons for ODF files. It's also something, I believe, the ODF  
Fellowship is interested in.  I'm not sure how logistically feasible  
this would be and have my doubts about its general desirability.  
Applications (or rather their makers) tend to determine the icon set  
used, and in FOSS, that means just about any distributor/implementor  
can do what it wants, including ignoring what others want, unless  
there are legal constraints.

However, there may be a reasonable compromise: a default set that may  
be used. It would probably have to be trademarked, but by whom?  
Oasis, I'd imagine.  And who would police it? More generally, would  
it even be considered worth it?  The point of this is marketing: to  
build brand awareness, and given the touted intra-implementation  
interoperability of the format, I can see that advantage. But then,  
we should be focusing not on simply creating icons for the format but  
encouraging (and trademarking a logo) for implementations to use that  
brands them as implementing ODF.



best
louis