Re: New icons for nm-applet

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 17:14 +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I've always loathed the icons shipped with fedora for network manager,
> they just don't seem to fit with our current gnome look. 
> 
> Over the weekend I sat and drew up some new icons, they're inspired a
> bit by jimmac's new icons for suse as seen here
> http://jimmac.musichall.cz/i.php?i=NetworkManager
> 
> I've only done these icons in 24x24 but could do 22x22 and 16x16 if
> asked *really* nicely :)

Yep, I've seen these, there's a bug open for them on gnome.org, but
there's on objection I have:  the "progress" icon re-uses the signal
strength bars as the progress meter, which is confusing.  If the
progress icons were re-done using the spinning balls or some other
indicator, then I'd do another eval and they might just get committed...
jimmac declined to spend time on that.

Dan

> In order to use these icons however I had to hack network manager a
> little, changing the number of frames to 8 and the frame delay to around
> 200/150 for best results. 
> 
> I hope you consider updating the icon theme for network manager, and
> possibly including these ones. 
> 
> I've also noticed that network manager has a tendency to pick to wrong
> icon sizes, if you have 96x96 as the only icons in an icon theme for
> instance network manager will choose those rather than the 22x22 or
> 24x24 icons. This leads to blurry icons.
> 
> Hope this helps, and hope you like the icons :)
> 
> You can grab the icons from here;
> http://www.wine-doors.org/releases/nm-applet-icons.tar.gz 
> 
> BR,
>  K
> 
> P.S. Moderator, what's 40Kb between friends? :)
> 
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