Re: Gnome Icon Status Report #1 -- The "We need nearly hundred"report

[Ben Frantzdale <frantzdb admin arhs net>]

For anyone who's interested, I've put the tarball of icons I mentioned
earlier (to fill up the foot menu) at
http://www.arhs.net/~frantzdb/icons.tar.gz
Not all of them are great, but most are better than nothing :-)

--Ben

PS
I'm interested in helping to paint more icons.


On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Matthias Warkus wrote:

> Rationale:
> 
> Gnome needs more icons. No one seems to be painting new ones. Even the
> already-existing pixmaps are not used where they could be. This needs
> volunteers to be solved.
> Maybe this attracts some.
> Maybe not.
> But trust me on the sunscreen.
> 
> 
> 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Gnome Icon Status Report
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> as of August 8th, 1999
> by mawa
> 
> 
> 
> By no means complete, as this report was done solely on my system.
> Entries which are part of gnome-core, gnome-applets, gnome-utils or
> another core package should be regarded as having a higher priority.
> 
> Developers are urged to browse down; in the panel context menu, eight
> icon positions are empty which could be filled up without creating any
> new artwork. The desktop files or menu pixmaps are simply not set.
> 
> 
> 
> MISSING ICONS IN THE FOOT MENU:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Submenu icons:
> - Applications
> - Games
> - Graphics
> - System
> - Utilities
> - Administration
> 
> Games:
> - Gnotravex
> - Gnibbles
> - gTuring
> (10) - gataxx
> 
> Graphics:
> - ggv
> 
> Internet:
> - Synchronize
> - Gnome Mailman
> - X-Chat
> 
> Multimedia:
> - ESD Volume Meter
> 
> System:
> - GnoRPM is using "foot question mark" icon
> - Shut Down or Reboot
> 
> Settings Submenus:
> - Desktop
> (-) Multimedia
> - Peripherals
> 
> Settings:
> (20) - User Interface Options
> - Gnome Edit Properties
> - Mime Types
> (-) Shut Down or Reboot
> 
> User Interface Options:
> - Application Defaults
> - MDI
> 
> Utilities:
> - Gnome Search Tool
> - Gnome DiskFree
> - Stripchart Plotter using "foot question mark" icon
> - System Info (guname)
> (30) - User Listing (gw)
> - Text File Viewer (gless)
> - Gnome Penguin
> - Font Selector
> - guiTAR
> - System monitor using "foot question mark" icon
> - GDict
> 
> Administration:
> - GULP
> 
> 
> 
> MISSING ICONS IN THE PANEL CONTEXT MENU:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Main panel context menu:
> (-) System menus (should use same icon as foot menu)
> (-) User menus (should use same icon as foot menu)
> - Add applet
> (40) (-) Add main menu (could use foot icon)
> (-) Add drawer (could use drawer pixmap)
> (-) Add logout button (could use logout button pixmap)
> (-) Add lock button (could use lock button pixmap)
> - Add swallowed app
> - Add new launcher
> - Convert to corner panel
> - Create new panel
> (-) Remove this panel (could use stock pixmap)
> 
> "Add Applet" submenus:
> (50) - Amusements
> - Clocks
> - Monitors
> - Utility
> 
> Amusements submenu:
> - Fish
> - Fifteen
> - Game of Life
> - SlashApp
> - gEyes
> 
> Clocks:
> - Clock
> (60) - AfterStep Clock
> - Clock and Mailcheck
> - JBC Binary Clock
> - Another Clock
> 
> Monitors:
> - Battery Charge Monitor
> - CPU/MEM Usage
> - Disk Usage
> - CPULoad
> - MemLoad
> - SwapLoad
> (70) - NetLoad
> 
> Multimedia:
> (-) CD Player (could use icon from foot menu)
> - Mixer
> - Sound Monitor
> 
> Network:
> - Mailcheck
> - Web Control
> (-) Clock and Mailcheck
> - Modem Lights
> (-) PPP Applet (could use icon from foot menu)
> 
> Utility:
> - Printer Applet
> (80) - Drive Mount
> - Character Picker
> - Gnome Pager
> - Mini Commander
> (-) GDict
> - Tick-a-Stat
> - Task List
> - Desk Guide
> - Where am I?
> - GNotes!
> (90) - Gnome Weather
> 
> 
> 
> 
> CONFLICTS
> ~~~~~~~~~
> - Balsa and TkRat using same icon
>   -> need for one additional icon
> - GnomENIUS and gnome-calc using same icon
>   -> need for one additional icon
> - Colour XTerm and Regular Xterm using same icon
>   -> need for additional one
> - Gnome PPP and Internet Submenu using same icon
>   -> need for additional one
> - Sound properties, Multimedia submenu and Audio Mixer using same icon
>   -> need for two new icons
> (- Multimedia submenu in foot menu and Multimedia submenu in applet menu
>   using same icon (OK IMHO))
> (- same thing with Internet submenu in foot menu and Network submenu in
>   applet menu)
> - "This panel properties..." and "Global properties..." using same
>   icon
>   -> need for one more
> - "Show documentation index", "Show history window" and "Show
>   bookmarks window" in the help browser using same icon
> (100)  -> need for two more
> 
> 
> 
> TOTAL
> ~~~~~
> 
> Doing a rough count of all the dashes I made and the icons the
> "Conflicts" section requires, I come up to exactly 100 icons that are
> missing from Gnome's two most important menus. Deducting 13 positions
> which can be filled by existing icons or that are duplicate, we can
> estimate that 87 icons need to be made.
> 
> That is only the beginning, but I dare not think of what's beyond the
> foot menu and panel context menu.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> REMARKS
> ~~~~~~~
> IMHO, applications or submenus which have not got a proper icon yet
> should consider using a different icon with a related theme or the
> "foot question mark" icon instead of simply leaving a blank.
> 
> The first thing I'll do now is mail the maintainers of some
> applications whether they can provide icons or change their .desktop
> files if they've got suitable pixmaps.
> 
> This report needs to be amended with other icon-related problems which
> surely exist. Mail me. And of course the mentioned problems need to be
> solved. Maybe we can solve them. Mail me if you want to paint an icon.
> I can then perhaps estimate how many people would like to do icons for
> Gnome and schedule somehow who's doing what.
> 
> It takes hours to paint a good icon. If you want to paint icons for
> Gnome, paint them *one* *by* *one* and put at least a day of work into
> each one. It's necessary, trust me.
> 
> If you can't paint but have got ideas on the motifs for icons that are
> yet to be made, mail me, too. They might go into the next report.
> 
> See you next week.
> 
> 
> 
> mawa <mawa@iname.com>
> -- 
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>                                                     -- Albert Einstein
> 
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