Re: [Nautilus-list] New document icons

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 14:05, Darin Adler wrote:
> On 1/20/02 5:03 AM, "Seth Nickell" <snickell stanford edu> wrote:
> 
> > Tigert & Jimmac have been busy and have at long last finished a
> > replacement set for the original GMC stock icons we still use for (most)
> > document type icons in Nautilus. I'd like to replace most of the
> > document icons with the new document icons.
> > 
> > See: http://primates.ximian.com/~tigert/new_stock_project/
> > 
> > Almost with exception I prefer the new document icons to the old gmc
> > icons. However, there are some issues raised about possibly replacing a
> > few of the newer "eazel" icons such as i-spreadsheet.png and i-music.png
> > with generic versions that are consistent with the new document icons.
> > (I don't have generic icons for these yet, only specific versions for
> > Gnumeric, but I suspect that they would be pretty easy to create).
> 
> Which theme are we talking about here?
> 
> > 1) Is it OK if I replace the gnome-*.png icons in nautilus/icons with
> > the new document icons?
> 
> Sure.

I'm curious, how large are the icons you guys made? I thought, to be
viewable at 400% and full quality, icons need to be 194x194 pixels.

--Ben
 
> > 2) Should I replace i-spreadsheet, i-music and perhaps i-regular with
> > "new document icon" versions or should we stick with the current ones?
> 
> Is there something good about the current ones that we need to preserve?
> 
> I only know about these issues with Nautilus icons:
> 
>     1) Nautilus uses multiple sizes, so it's important that we don't replace
> an icon with many different tuned sizes with a single icon
>     2) Nautilus icon themes inherit icons from a base theme, so if we add
> icons to the base theme, it can screw up a theme that doesn't have a
> corresponding themed icon, with the base theme icon showing through
>     3) the default icon theme for Nautilus used to have a distinctive look,
> but I'm sure the rest of the Gnome community would prefer it if the default
> theme was one that looked like tigert's art for the rest of Gnome
>     4) the default icon theme in Nautilus also serves as the base theme,
> which creates tension, because the default theme needs to have a lots of
> nice icons, but adding icons to the base theme can break other themes (see
> item 2 above) 
>     5) maybe the icons should be moved into gnome-mime-data anyway
> 
> Keep me posted please.
> 
>     -- Darin
> 
> 
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