Re: [Usability] GTK Stock icons

[Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lookkas gmail com>]

Thank you, Rodney. I'll file the bug. However, I still don't know how
to do proper patches (shame on me!), so I will attach a tarball of the
gnome icon folder with only the needed icons with the proper naming
scheme inside of it.

Please, if it's the wrong way to do it tell me and I'll skip this and
only put the list of icons as you've requested. I don't want to cause
all the fuss that happened with an incorrect patch on the gnome
default theme.

Best regards 

Lucas

On Apr 1, 2005 5:25 PM, Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 16:44 -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> >
> > I don't know exactly where I should  post this, so if someone finds it
> > inappropriate, please forgive me and pont me to the right location.
> >
> > Most default stock icons (for actions like cancel or OK) present in
> > gtk are really dated (gnome 1.X) and not really good looking. However,
> > it seems that no one cared about getting rid of them on 5 (!) stable
> > releases of the gnome 2.X series.
> 
> Most of the icons were re-done actually for 2.0.
> 
> > However, there are already good replacements for (most of) them. For
> > example, the stock icons made by jimmac for the industrial GTK theme
> > fits well with default gnome artwork and are aesthetically pleasant.
> >
> > I know that this can be fixed by:
> >
> > 1 - Adding Industrial stock icons to the hicolor default icon theme,
> > so every gnome/gtk app on X11 will benefit from it.
> 
> The "hicolor" icon theme doesn't contain any icons, and isn't a gtk+
> theme, so I'm not sure that this would really solve the problem.
> 
> > 2 - Other possible approach would be integrating the stock icons
> > aforementioned on gtk proper, so the windows apps that uses gtk (gaim,
> > abiword, gimp) can benefit for it too, and the old stock icons can
> > rest in peace.
> 
> Abiword on windows doesn't use GTK+. I believe they use XPM versions of
> some icons, imported into their code directly, even on *nix with GTK+.
> 
> > I would like to make clear that I'm suggesting the Industrial theme
> > stock icons as the default because they are clear, distinctive,
> > neutral and fit well with the rest of the artwork. I'm not trying to
> > make a flamewar about this.
> >
> > So, I would like an opinion about this. I would like to see this
> > fixed, making our desktop and development platform rock even more.
> 
> If you know what icon names need to be used in the Icon Theme, not the
> gtk+ theme with an iconrc file, please file bugs against
> gnome-icon-theme in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/ with the list of names
> that are looked up in the icon theme for this. I will see what I can
> do to get them into gnome-icon-theme at that point.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
>