Re: Changes to the icon theme

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

Hello all,

On 22 March 2014 20:22, Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Release Team,
>
> I just updated my Rawhide testing machine to discover that some of the
> icons in the top panel have changed since I last updated it a few days
> ago. Specifically, I picked up on the battery-full-charged-symbolic
> icon[1] my laptop is always fully charged (when I take screenshots).
>
> The change happened 11 days ago, well past the UI freeze. It was not
> announced to the docs team[2], nor to the release team as far as I can
> see[3]. There are also other changes to icons in the latest releases
> of gnome-icon-theme and gnome-icon-theme-symbolic, but it is difficult
> for me to tell whether they affect documentation, so I would
> appreciate it if the icon theme maintainers could comment on those
> changes.
>
> This change affects screenshots in a number of modules:
> * at least two images in gnome-user-docs
> * two screenshots in epiphany
> From memory, I would say that there are a fair few more, but I would
> need to spend a substantial of time looking for them as the
> Documentation Team maintains docs for many modules.
>
> Also, this affects the 3.12 release video which has been produced by
> the Engagement Team (CCed for this reason).
>
> I would like to request that this change to the battery icon is
> reverted for the 3.12 release because the Documentation Team does not
> have time to find and retake all of the screenshots on top of
> finishing the updates to docs. The repository is not revert-friendly,
> so if that change cannot be undone for the 3.12 release, I would
> appreciate it if the 3.11.91 release is shipped for 3.12. I would also
> like to take this opportunity to encourage the maintainers of
> gnome-icon-theme-symbolic to make releases on schedule and in
> compliance with freezes.

The commit has been reverted now, see
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=701031 for more details.
The quick resolution by the maintainers is appreciated, thank you.

> All the best,
> Kat
>
>
> [1] 
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic/commit/?id=d492294cf5be67fce674bfadcf466b2efa619838
> [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-doc-list/2014-March/thread.html
> [3] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2014-March/thread.html