Re: Requesting UI Freeze break for gnome-panel and gnome-utils

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

NOTE: I am not on the release team.  My approval does not count
towards the necessary two release team approvals.  But it does
count towards any release team approval which is contingent on
documentation team approval.

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 23:39 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le lundi 27 ao�07, �3:09 +0200, Jaap Haitsma a �it :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The gnome-searchtool icon got removed from gnome-icon-theme because it
> > got replaced by the system-search icon.
> > 
> > I've made patches for gnome-searchtool and gnome-panel to use the new icon.
> > 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470194 gnome-panel
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=470196 gnome-searchtool
> > 
> > Can I apply the two patches?
> 
> Adding gnome-doc-list and release-team to CC.
> 
> You get one approval from me if documentation people are fine with this
> change.

Clearly, something has to be done.  I suppose our options are:

1) Just make the icon change
2) Put the old icons back somewhere

For the curious, here's the old and new icons:
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/branches/gnome-2-18/48x48/apps/gnome-searchtool.png
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/32x32/actions/system-search.png

Let's just suck it up and make the change.

On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 23:39 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: 
> Le lundi 27 ao�07, �2:27 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi a �it :
> > on a related note: there is an existing patch[1] for replacing the icon
> > of gnome-dictionary with the one provided by g-i-t - which would remove
> > the abomination I concocted with inkscape. hence, I'm requesting a break
> > for applying that patch as well.
> 
> cc'ing gnome-doc-list :-)

Old and new again:
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-utils/trunk/gnome-dictionary/data/gnome-dictionary.png
http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/32x32/apps/accessories-dictionary.png

This change is less critical.  The documentation hasn't been updated in
17 months.  We wouldn't be wasting any new effort, although we would be
further invalidating whatever documentation exists.

The icon does appear in each of the figures, but always in a screenshot
of the already-running application, either in the titlebar or next to the
applet.  I tend to worry more about icon changes where the user is being
directed to look for something, and that something isn't there.  Given:

1) The potential for user confusion is probably very low, and
2) It's not all that likely the documentation would have stood a better
   chance of being updated had the change been made earlier

I say we make the change.

--
Shaun