Status on improving the icon theme

[Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>]

Hey everyone,

I hope by now that some people have joined this list, so I'm not 
just sending this e-mail to no-one.

I've been talking to Luca and Jimmac about this for the last few
days. ATM Luca is concentrating on:
     1. nautilus emblems 
     2. Application and Action menu 
     3. Preferences (gnome-control-center) icon 
     4. Default apps at 32x32 (-> I hope we can switch Application 
	menu to this size by default 
     5. other icons...

As well as that I have a strong interest in the desktop and nautilus
so my list is:
1. Home icon that isn't a picture of a house
2. Better trash icon
3. Better icons for mounted filesystems/devices (like cameras and 
	partitions)
4. Imporoved Folder icons.

My idea for the folder icons is to use the directory-accept (the icon
used when you drag something onto a directory) as the directory
icon, and then do a new directory-accept icon with the folder even
wider open. Jimmac agrees with me that this would look better and
is even willing to do up the new folder icons needed. But I'd
love to get people's reactions to that before we go ahead with it.

As for Luca's list (which I hope to be involved in too), he has already
done a lot of work and put a lot of thought into emblems,
application icons, and preferences icons. We have some unfinished
html docs that I hope to post up here soon that summarise the 
changes. After that(and some discussion) I hope to start gradually
merging his changes into the gnome-icon-theme module so that we don't
have to do it all at once some time in the future.

I'm personally in the middle of exams, as well as getting ready for
GUADEC, so I won't have much time for this until next week. So I may
have to leave you in Jimmac and Luca's capable hands. I envite both of
them to post up their ideas/plans so that we can get some discussion
going.

oh yeah, and a good bit of what we do with the applications menu
may depend on this bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114920
and the discussion about on desktop-devel-list.

Later

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Mark Finlay <sisob eircom net>