Re: icon naming spec and gnome-vfs

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2006/8/2, Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>:
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 15:26 +0300, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/icons-design.html
> >
> > in "Problems to avoid" there reads
> >
> > "Do not include meaningful text in icons."
>
> On the same page is talked about text in icons when it comes to program
> names, text in native language, etc. Having a small "jpg" overlay on a
> MIME-icon for JPEG files doesn't look bad while reading this section of
> the HIG.

And also scaling issues for including "extraneous information".

And if you ask me, "jpg", "png" or "tiff" does not translate well to
UserSpeak ;)

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