Re: icon naming spec and gnome-vfs

[Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net>]

David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 18:06 -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> > I will however, disagree that we need to provide such explicit
> > icons as to state what method a hard disk is connect to the computer
> > through, or what type of data is contained on an optical disc, in a
> > base
> > GNOME install. 

Speaking of which: the latest GNOME has a castrated icon theme that does 
not show me what type of image the icon represents, nor what type of 
audio file I'm clicking on.

These icons have succumbed to being treated as "such explicit icons" in 
the "base GNOME install" during the last release cycle.

The problem is, as a user, I can't get the old icons back, and certainly 
not from an official source. So we have to treat the "base GNOME 
install" as the "de facto GNOME install."

David is right: the more information the icons can provide, the better. 
I don't know where you get the funny idea that the less information the 
icons provides, the better.

Please stop destroying the wonderful icons.

--Pat