[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Icon update
From: |
Bill Wohler |
Subject: |
Re: Icon update |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:22:47 -0800 |
Jan D. <address@hidden> wrote:
> Bill Wohler wrote:
>
> >Jan D. <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Bill Wohler wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>I've attached some screenshots of these situations. I think before we
> >>>>release this we need to find stock items for everything. In Info mode
> >>>>there are also icons that don't have any stock definition, so arrows
> >>>>may look differently.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Since you're more familiar with GTK, can you please suggest a
> >>>specific
> >>>proposal?
> >>>While updating the icons I was thinking of stock_previous,
> >>>stock_next,
> >>>and stock_up (from GNOME) to replace prev_node, next_node, and up_node
> >>>respectively but wasn't sure how folks would respond to that.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Can you link to them?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'm not sure I know what you mean by that.
> >
> >
>
> I meant give an URL where these icons can be seen.
file:/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/stock :-(
I recently asked this very same question on the GNOME usability list:
Rodney Dawes <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 08:46 -0800, Bill Wohler wrote:
> > Also, there are a dazzling number of icon and desktop themes on the
> > GNOME site, but none are branded "Default" so I could check for
> > myself. What is the URL to the current default set of icons?
>
> And, as Calum stated, gnome-icon-theme is in GNOME CVS, and not
> available as a simple tarball theme download on a theme site.
> >Hmmm, you're right. I see two approaches.
> >
> >1. Devise a scheme that provides the following icon priorities:
> >
> >a. Personal icons
> >b. Theme icons
> >c. Emacs built-in icons
> >
> >2. Use the theme as I had proposed. The user personalizes the icon not
> > by adding their icons to image-load-path, but rather by adding their
> > icons to the GNOME theme. We document this.
> >
> >I suspect that the latter is more germane to a GNOME user.
>
> Yes. But it would mean having different strategies fro GTK Emacs and
> Emacs compiled without GTK. Maybe that isn't such a big deal. I
> suspect users of GTK Emacs would want it to change as the theme
> changes. If we can agree on Gnome icons, I'm all for it, we can
> always fall back to builtin icons if those aren't available.
Falling back to those icons will also be the thing to do in non-GTK
situations too, so we should be OK. Right?
--
Bill Wohler <address@hidden> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian!
If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.
- Re: Icon update, Jan D., 2006/04/01
- Re: Icon update,
Bill Wohler <=
- Re: Icon update, Bill Wohler, 2006/04/01
- Re: Icon update, Jan D., 2006/04/03
- Re: Icon update, Bill Wohler, 2006/04/03
- Re: Icon update, Jan D., 2006/04/04
- Re: Icon update, Bill Wohler, 2006/04/04
- Re: Icon update, Lennart Borgman, 2006/04/04
- Re: Icon update, Bill Wohler, 2006/04/04
- Re: Icon update, Jan D., 2006/04/05
- Re: Icon update, Miles Bader, 2006/04/05