Re: non-branded icons

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 19:05 +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 12:27 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 17:59 +0100, Jakub Steiner wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > > Currently the Network Manager applet ships with Bluecurve branded icons.
> > > I have created a set that follows the Tango style guidelines, which aims
> > > to be fairly generic, desktop platform independent. 
> > 
> > Hmm?  They weren't designed specifically for Bluecurve, but given most
> > GNOME themes Diana thought the blue color looked best against their
> > background (which other colors likely wouldn't).
> 
> Hi Dan,
> looking at the mimetype icon, the ethernet icons, it is clearly
> bluecurve with its isometric perspective. 
> 
> I think the default set ought to be more generic. In gnome we used to
> have the style that tig & me developed over time (it's just briefly
> described in the Gnome HIG). 
> 
> I'd like to move over to the more generic look than keep on maintaining
> the GNOME look, but creating a GNOME icon set for NM is also an option.
> 
> Of course it would be rad to be able to ship different icon themes with
> the application but that should possibly be discussed on xdg as it's a
> file conflict packaging minefield.

While I agree with having more GNOME-like icons, the ones for the signal
strength are close to useless, as they're so small that you can't tell
them apart from each other.

Good work!

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>