Re: GNOME icon names

[Christian Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

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.

Christian