Re: status on improving the icon theme -- new and changed icons

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il ven, 2003-06-20 alle 16:49, Jakub Steiner ha scritto: 
> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 15:50, Luca Ferretti wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 01:58, Bill Haneman wrote: 
> > > Hi Luca:
> > > 
> > > Could you email me the screenshot?  The attachment seems not to have
> > > come through :-)
> > 
> > Ehrm... Sorry, I forget it. So there are 2 shots.
> > 
> > Notes about Application menu icons: 
> >       * All icons should use a shelf prospective (see HIG) 
> 
> I fail to see a section in the HIG that tells that. Actually the
> suggested perspective for application icons is 'table', not shelf (table
> 9.2). But I don't thik it rules out 'on the shelf', it's just a
> reccomendation.

Sorry, I was too much cryptic.

The same table said to use the shelf prospective for menus, the same
prospective of GTK_STOCK_* icons.

So IMHO could be a good idea use the table prosp for 48x48 icons
(typically used in nautilus) and the shelf for 32x32 to use in
Application menu.

Obviously drawing the icon in a proper way can help. A good example can
be your file cabinet icon (used for file manager) in xd2: it's in front
view, it has a simple shape, so it's good in both sizes and places
(nautilus window and application menu).

I'm just saying: K.I.S.S. :-)  (see attachment) 

The front view is better IMHO, and you can simply "switch" from a
prospective to another changing the shadow and little other stuff.

> > Plus I think we should change icon names for application categories and
> > switch, i.e., from gnome-joystick.png to gnome-category-games.png (this
> > stuff is maneged in gnome-desktop/desktop-links). Unfortunately this
> > change need additional work, at least duplicate some icons in
> > gnome-desktop, gnome-icon-theme and gnome-themes using the proper name. 
> 
> Renaming existing files is very problematic. Although I agree it would
> make things a lot clearer, we'd need at least some symlink magic not to
> break the old apps in the transition time.

What about simply add them? They should be only 8 or 9. I've a patch on
my $HOME to do it, but someone should apply it and should manage icons.

Same troubles for many other apps: For example ggv and gpdf: I think we
should add a gnome-[ps|pdf]-viewer.png icon in gnome-icon-theme and
those programs should use is in .deskop file and in wm_icon.

Same for gnome-image-viewer.png, gnome-text-editor.png and so on.

> cheers

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