Re: [Usability] icon missing warning is really annoying

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

This is a panel issue. No other part of the desktop does this that I
know of.

-- dobey


On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 22:34 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> Before I go tracking down which peice of Gnome this problem is really
> about and filing bug reports I was hoping I could get some feedback here
> first.
> 
> If you upgrade your distribution and icons you were using previously are
> no longer available Gnome (at least Gnome 2.10 and many previous versions)
> will warn you seperately for each missing icon.  This results in several
> seperate warnings all telling me pretty much the same thing.  What is even
> more annoying is that it will continue to warn you each and every time you
> login until you pick a new icon for the launchers/shortcuts.
> 
> Perhaps I should be blaming distributions for not keeping bigger sets of
> icons around.  Perhaps I should give up and keep a copy of the icons I
> want to use in my homedirectory.  (And while I'm at it what is with
> Mozilla using a big M for an Icon?  Using text as an icon is goofy,
> pointless, and obviously wrong.)  I am however thankful for the generic
> green apple, red apple, icons still included in Gnome which at least gives
> me some spare generic icons I can work with.
> 
> I guess what I'd like for Gnome to do would be to display the stock
> missing icon image instead of that old foot icon from Gnome 1.4 and the
> abscence of an icon should be obvious enough and not require a warning,
> and certainly not require
> 
> Strangely I've ended up with a configuration which doesn't include an
> icon for the show desktop applet and the applet doesn't include a way to
> configure the icon like the way normal shortcuts do (I guess I could call
> it an annoying inconsistency that the panel objects are not more alike).
> 
> Unhappy Ubunut* (formerly miserble Mandrake)
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Alan Horkan