Re: Computer icon: desktop pc, notebook or server?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 16:56, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Luca Ferretti">
> 
> > It's just a really silly question, but IMHO could be cool if you can have
> > the ability to choose Computer icon depending on what kind of computer you
> > are using.
> > 
> > Note that in gnome-icon-theme we have stock_notebook.png and
> > gnome-fs-server.png at 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 pixels, so we could
> > change the icon in desktop, in explorer toolbar and in Place/Go menu. 
> > 
> > It should be a global option, not a single user option. End, of course, I
> > don't think we should add any UI to change it.
> > 
> > Just a (gconf ?) key that distro can set when installing or root user can
> > edit,
> 
> You can always just choose a custom icon for yourself. That seems like a
> reasonable enough already-there option. Perhaps you should fire up some
> people to do some common computer types in the jimmac style so users have
> icons to choose from? :-)

Ideally I would like a Computer icon that isn't just a picture of an
icon (since that kind of icon is overused), but something else that
represents what "Computer" contains, i.e. the volumes, filesystems and
removable media in the computer.


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