Re: [Usability] GTK Stock icons

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

Just list the proper names in the bug report. No need to attach a
tarball. I have all the icons.

-- dobey


On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 19:07 -0300, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> 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
> > 
> >
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