icon theme

[daniele favara]

On 2/12/06, daniele favara <danjele at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Edscott Wilson Garcia <edscott at xfce.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, daniele favara wrote:
> >
> > > On 2/9/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> > >> daniele favara wrote:
> > >>> http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Roadmap-0.3-1:XfceTheme
> > >>>
> > >>> i can't find an icon "system-reboot" ... i'll ask if it can be added
> > >>> ... but now let me know if you see something wrong.
> > >>>
> > >>> Comments and suggestions are really appreciated
> > >>
> > >> The Terminal icons are app-specific icons (except for the browser and
> > >> mailer icons) not desktop-wide icons, that should be included in the
> > >> naming spec.
> > >>
> > >> Way more important are preferences-desktop-default-applications,
> > >> system-user and system-group, as they are system/desktop-wide icons that
> > >> should be consistent among different desktops.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > They will be used in a planned xffm plugin to do user/group
> > administration in the manner of CDE.
> >
>
> when i say "not present on any xfce apps" .. i mean they are not on
> svn .. or maybe i just didn't see them .
>
> I told for today i would have something ready .... but:
>
> www.tango-project.org
>
> anyway it'll be back soon ...
>

ok ... tango-project.org is back ...

after a talk with dobey, the maint. of icon naming spec, i have some news:

system-users (system-group) icon is not to use as Benny does ...
obviously this is just his own opinion, but that icon is not for that
pourpose.

He told those two icons in thunar are not really useful, as they even
ruin the text alignment:

http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/images/Sys-icon.png

and i agree, but i can't really say he was open to suggestions :) ...
he didn't try to understand | ask why thunar is using those icons ...
he just told me "that 's not the way" ..

Anyway he will happy to patch the xml file, adding the xfce icon names.

Some icons that seems not correct are:

Icon=xfce-schedule --> Icon=appointment-new
Icon=xfce-system-info --> Icon=dialog-information

> system-user
> -----------
> The icon to represent a user account. The old GNOME icon name is
> "stock_person".
>
> system-group
> ------------
> The icon to represent a group of users in the system. The old GNOME icon
> name is "stock_people".

It seems even gnome icon name are absolete and will change soon.

I personally think that if that stuff is going to be a standard,
people as you (xfce devels) should have the possiblity to propose what
you would  ....
or instead of having something that fits your needs ... you'll need to
fit your needs on those spec ... if you'll want to use them.

I'll read better the spec, and it would be nice if you could take a
look on them ... and maybe explain if there is something you don't
like.

thanks

ciao

link:  http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Roadmap-0.3-1:XfceTheme