Re: GNOME icon names

[Garrett LeSage <garrett redhat com>]

Christian Schaller wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 00:15, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  
>
> > On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 17:26, Christian Schaller wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > I upgraded to GNOME 2.4 from Red Hat Rawhide today and noticed that 
> > > in Red Hat the GNOME icons have mostly new names like 'icon-*',
> > > yet also using their own 'redhat-*' for the same icons.
> > >
> > > Looking a gnome-icon-theme it does not contain icons using this naming
> > > standard (the icon-* one), so I assume it is currently a Red Hat only
> > > fix.
> > >
> > > Question is if the names used by RH is the names we we plan to use for
> > > GNOME in the future. The reason I am asking is to know if I should start
> > > migrating gnome-themes-extras to these new icon names or if I should
> > > just add them as a new bunch of symlinks.
> > >      
> > Look at the redhat-artwork build and the icon-slicer tool on
> > freedesktop.org for the full context of what's going on. We have a
> > config file that generates GNOME/KDE-specific symlinks to a set of base
> > icon names.
> >
> > Havoc
> >    
> Well the symlink stuff is the same as I am doing for
> gnome-themes-extras, although I want to have symlinks for as many 
> distros as possible. 
>
> Yet, in my opinion the current set of icon names used, especially for
> the menu categories, are ugly and often misleading so I figured looking
> at rawhide that there was a plan to clean this up. I guess not ;) I
> guess my start at migrating g-t-e to icon-* names is a waste of time
> then.

I wanted to standardize things a bit, as we have both KDE and GNOME icon 
mappings to a generic name.  It doesn't make much sense to have one 
desktop symlink to another, especially when a few icons exist on one and 
not the other. 

I basically started with the GTK+ and GNOME icon names and replaced the 
gnome- and gtk- parts with icon-, then symlinked everything over.

The naming scheme used right now can be renamed if there is a better 
suggestion.  It would simply take altering the aliases (which produce 
symlinks).  As of yet, nothing uses the alternate icon names, only the 
symlinks.

Thanks to icon-slicer, renaming and updating icons is relatively easy 
compared to how it was done before.

Garrett