icon theme

[Benedikt Meurer]

daniele favara wrote:
> Benedikt i suppose you're talking about perm dialog of thunar (owner
> and group), but those icons are not present on any xfce apps .. from
> what i see.
> 
> i think that those icons should be fixed in the Rodent theme, and this
> will be my last step.
> 
> 1) make xfce "themeable" [we are here]
> 2) patch the xml file of icon-naming-utils
> 3) post a message on tango mail list
> 4) fix the xfce icon theme
> 
> i coded a gtk frontend to browse the icon theme in use and check what
> are the icons that need to be fixed. During step 4 i'll improve it in
> a way it will be possible to edit the icon names.
> 
> umm ... you meant owner and group icons true ?

The user/group icons are used by various applications in various
desktops, and there should be one common icon name for them. Same for
the default applications icon. It doesn't matter how often an icon is
used throughout Xfce, the important question is: How many applications
use such an icon in general (i.e. not as application specific icon).

IMHO, the first step would be figure out what icon names should be
standardized, that are not already standardized (i.e. the iconbox icon
isn't interesting here, since it's very, very Xfce-specific, same for
the Terminal icons, etc.). The next step would then include to propose
the addition of these icons to the icon naming spec, and once approved
the Xfce applications and the Rodent icon theme can be changed to use
the new standard icon names. And afterwards, we could ask on the tango
list for artists to draw Tango icons for the new icon names.

Benedikt