On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 23:00 +0200, Maciej Katafiasz wrote: > Dnia 03-10-2004, nie o godzinie 17:44 +0200, piotr smyrak heron pl > napisał: > > This idea happened to me when using a fresh install of Gnome 2.8. > > Please have a look at this screenshot: > > http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/icon-dialog-idea.png > > > > When one wants to change an icon, one usually would like to assign > > his favorite, out-of-stock icon, that one most probably stores in > > his private dir like ~/.icons or any other subfolder in the $HOME. > > But one wants to change the default icon, has to browse through the > > filesystem to one's $HOME. > > > > So my proposition is that the dialog presents instead/below the > > system pixmap dir in the drop down list the user's home dir or/and > > ~/.icons > > > > I am looking forward to hear your opinions. > > Honestly, pretty much everyone agrees that current icon selector is > rather horror UI, and would like to replace it. It's cumbersome, > confusing, and totally disobeys themes. If one wants to provide out-of- > theme icon, simply dragging it would be the best idea (or choose it from > FileChooser provided in UI, for your a11y & discoverability needs). But > primary UI should be only concerned with themed icons, since that's what > you want in vast majority of cases > > Cheers, > Maciej http://esco.mine.nu/archive/2004/07/21/back-in-business.html http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libegg/libegg/iconchooser/ -- Peace, Jim Cape http://esco.mine.nu http://ignore-your.tv "If even one reporter had stood up during a pre-Iraq Bush press conference last year and shouted, `Bullshit!' it might have made a difference." -- Matt Taibbi, New York Press
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