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



On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 22:17, Luca Ferretti wrote:

> 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.

That makes little sense. It's application icons. People are familiar
with the icons they will have in their panel menu and/or desktop. It
makes things harder for us to draw all of them too.

> 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).

It's 'on the table' perspective.

> > 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.

In which case we should make sure to update the .desktop files as soon
as we rename files in g-i-t. A lot of time something slipped through my
fingers. But on the other hand a temporaryt brokenness in -devel is
better than a mess in the end product.

I will be posting my idea of structuring the OOo stock icons coming to
g-i-t shortly. Hopefully we can have a fruitful discussion on it before
being forced to do cvs renames, which are quite a nightmare to me.

cheers

-- 
Jakub Steiner <jimmac ximian com>

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