Re: Status on improving the icon theme

[Francesco Marletta <francesco marletta tiscali it>]

Il 12 Jun 2003 19:24:23 +0200
Luca Ferretti ha scritto:

> On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 15:50, Francesco Marletta wrote:
> > Il 12 Jun 2003 14:35:54 +0100
> > Mark Finlay ha scritto:
> > 
> > > 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'm someone :)
> > 
> 
> You, here!  ;-P
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > 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've some concerns about the emblems, particularly the fact that now
> > (gnome 2.2) is not possibile to add personal emblems to these
> > provided by default (at least I didn't found the dir where to put
> > the images to accomplish this while in 2.0 it was easy)
> > 
> 
> drag and drop an image to Emblem side pane or Emblem dialog should
> work. There should be an "Add new emblem" in dialog too.

I'll try

> > 
> > As for icons, I think that it could be very useful to have a lot of
> > other icons for the more commonly used (or diffused) file formats.
> > Particularly I think that the major graphics programs proprietry
> > file format icons must be provided (photoshop, illustrator,
> > coreldraw, and so on)
> > 
> 
> mmhhh this is a little anti-HIG
> 
> <quote>Do not include a file extension in the icon. The document
> icon's job is not to convey such precise information but to allow for
> rapid visual distinction between documents.</quote>
> 
> IMHO HIG said to distinguish a word processor file from an image, or a
> PNG from an XCF, but this could be a misinterpretation from myself.
> 
> I mean: actually if I've a .doc or a .sxw file, I've to use OOo to
> open them. Are there any reason to distinguish type from icon? I can
> read filename, or invoke the properties dialog. Scrolling a folder /me
> needs only to see that it's a document, don't a presentation or a
> spreadsheet.
> 
> Besides, probably we can build up a generic image icon and add a
> "photoshop" emblem.
> 

My problem is that some coreldraw files are showed with and audio icon
in my mdk 9.1

so I raides this discussion

Francesco