GNOME Icon Status Report #17 -- The Stopgap

[mawarkus t-online de (Matthias Warkus)]

GNOME Icon Status Report
as of Juli 15th, 2000
by mawa

WHAT'S GOING ON?

	I just post this GISR to make you a bit less angry and show you
	that we're still alive.

Well, that's what I said last time. Considering that the GISR was intended to
be a weekly affair, it's a shame that it's been more than three months since
the last one. I'm just picking up again, now that I've got some more time on my
hands.

Many icons (i.e. Panel, Applets, Development, Settings) have been replaced by
Tigert with creations of his own. I don't agree with all of his decisions, but
he is the boss of all GNOME artwork and what he says and does is the law,
basically. All of you whose icons have been replaced: don't be too angry. Your
artwork is still on my hard drive and is or will soon be on the GNOME Icon Web;
and when icon theming is finally introduced into GNOME (which is to happen Real
Soon Now), we'll be able to use many of the rejected and/or replaced icons for
new themes.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE

There's a third GNOME PixPack for your viewing pleasure. This has already been
announced.

gEdit has got a new icon and a new logo. Alas, the logo is the icon, too, but
it's an improvement over the old Yet Another Sheet of Paper icon. Don't get me
wrong - the logo is great, it's just not so great as an icon.

The Gaby icon was finally added in all the right places.

A candidate for a Yudit icon was sent to the maintainer (Yudit is a third-party
multilingual editor).

The GNOME Terminal now has got an absolutely fabulous logo pixmap in its About
box. Check it out.

We've got candidates for GMath, the GNOME Transfer Manager, and SSH.

Eduardo's MC file type icons for RPM, DEB and SLP have all been replaced with
newer and better versions.

The bug-applet now has an icon. I don't know whether anyone uses this or
whether it is even still being actively developed, but now it's got a pretty
little icon.

APPLICATIONS THAT NEED ICONS
   
  * Elvis (vi clone with a GNOME front end)
  * gLife (ALife program)
  * Gnomba (some kind of Network Neighbourhood for GNOME, I suppose)
  * Pybliographer (bibliographer program)
  * Sixty Four Bits Applet (a binary clock)
  * URL Collector Applet
  * XMMS Applet (XMMS multimedia player remote control)

MISSING ICONS IN THE PANEL CONTEXT MENU

"Add to panel" submenu
   
  * Status dock

Clocks
   
  * Clock
  * AfterStep Clock

Monitors
   
  * SwapLoad
  * NetLoad (candidate in the making)
  * Load Average

Utility
   
  * Mini Commander
  * Where am I?

FILETYPES THAT NEED ICONS

NB: this is a big and bold list. It contains nearly all the suffixes from the
suffixes(7) man page and more.
   
  * Assembly source (.s, .S)
  * Automake template (.am)
  * Awk source (.awk)
  * Backup file (maybe this should be done by laying something over the
    backed-up file type's icon)
  * ChangeLog
  * Common Lisp source (.cl, .lsp, .lisp)
  * C++ header (.H, .hh, .hpp)
  * Data file (.dat)
  * lib*db* simple database (.db)
  * Diff output (.diff)
  * DVI (.dvi)
  * Eiffel source (.e)
  * Emacs Lisp source (.el)
  * Emacs Lisp bytecode (.elc)
  * Fortran header (.fi) (try punched cards)
  * Fortran source (.f, .F) (dito)
  * FTP URL (.ftpurl?)
  * generic TeX font (*gf)
  * Ghostscript font (.gsf)
  * incomplete file (template) (.in)
  * .info file
  * .it audio file (ImpulseTracker module)
  * Java class (.class) (candidates available)
  * LaTeX class (.cls)
  * LaTeX style (.sty)
  * lex/flex source
  * Linux kernel (vmlinuz etc.; there should be icons for other OSes'
    kernels, too) (candidates available)
  * log files (.log?)
  * LyX files (.lyx)
  * M4 source (.m4)
  * Metafont source (.mf)
  * MIDI sequence (.mid)
  * NEWS
  * Nroff source for me package (.me)
  * Original file (.orig)
  * Pascal source (.p)
  * packed TeX font (*pk)
  * Patch (.patch) (candidates available)
  * Perl header (.ph)
  * Perl method (.pm)
  * Perl source (.pl, .perl)
  * Process ID file (.pid)
  * PGP armoured text (.asc)
  * PostScript font, ASCII (.pfa)
  * PostScript font, compiled (.pfb)
  * Python source (.py) (candidates available)
  * Python bytecode (.pyc) (candidates available)
  * RC (configuration) file (*rc, no suffix)
  * Rich Text Format (.rtf)
  * SGML (.sgml)
  * Shell script (.sh; the question is whether this makes sense, since most
    scripts have not got a particular suffix)
  * Sun audio (.au)
  * Tcl source (.tcl; the same as for .sh goes for this)
  * TeX font metric (.tfm)
  * TeX virtual font file (.vf)
  * TeX virtual property list file (.vpl)
  * Texinfo source (.texi)
  * TODO
  * uuencoded file (.uu, .uue)
  * yacc/bison source (.y)

CONFLICTS
   
  * Balsa and TkRat using same icon
  * Gnome PPP, Internet Submenu, XSiteCopy using same icon
  * Main menu, Programs menu using same icon
  * Printer applet, GULP using same icon

SUBOPTIMAL ICONS

    Bitgrazer
has text, is not shaped
    Enlightenment theme
icon: E is hard to discern
    Glines
could use transparency
    GQview
a logo, not shaped, illegible, too massive
    Logview icon
metaphor is not international
    X-Chat
the new icon is better, but still a logo and not shaped
    Screem
is a logo
    TeX
file type icon: does not use correct TeX logo (capitalised, subscript E)
    Utilities menus
Swiss Army knife could do with more contrast

Feel free to comment. If any of this information is wrong, please flame me
loudly.

THANKS

Thanks to all who have contributed.

If you, too, want to contribute, be sure to check the small GNOME Artwork HOWTO
.

mawa (mawa@iname.com)
-- 
Speaking for me, not for ACME, Inc. (Phoenix - Tucson - Albuquerque -
Santa Fe)

Mainly because I don't work for ACME, Inc.