Re: Icon theming for Balsa

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 12/29/2004 01:11:09 AM, Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 27/12/04 10:15:51, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> > Bluecurve doesn't provide some icons that Balsa would like to  
> > use: gnome-mime-message-* and gnome-mime-multipart-* come to  
> > mind.  The Balsa tarball comes with (identical?) 48x48 png  
> > files for multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative, but they  
> > don't seem to get installed anywhere.  How should we handle  
> > these?
>
> I'm confused; does Balsa expect to get all its icons from  
> Bluecurve?

Oh, no--but presumably it should, to the extent that themes  
provide them; in the past, users have pointed out that Balsa used  
different icons from Nautilus for the same file types.

> If not, the solution is either to use "standard" stock icons  
> (which Bluecurve should know about) and/or to communicate to  
> the Bluecurve devs that they have some icons missing.

Yes--to avoid clutter (visual and code-wise), Balsa uses stock  
items wherever we're aware of them; Albrecht has suggested that  
where there aren't any, Balsa could provide its own using  
gtk_icon_theme_add_builtin_icon.

> I know from my contributions to Lila that missing icons are the  
> bulk of the work and that, when most programs demand whichever  
> icons they please, we answer with more icons.  (I'm not sure  
> what the freedesktop people would have to say about this--it  
> doesn't seem like the best idea simply to add icons upon icons  
> for program after program.  I'm just speaking from the  
> perspective of a themer.)

I'd hazard a guess that to keep the UI clear, you want as few  
distinct icons as possible, but no fewer--IOW, as a non-themer, I  
won't jump in on that one!

> Sorry if I missed the point of your post, Peter,

Sorry I wasn't clear.

Best,

Peter