Re: Icon update

[Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>]

Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:

> Bill Wohler wrote:
> 
> >Jan D. <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Bill Wohler wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>"Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se> 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 <dobey@novell.com> 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?

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