Benefits: better icons, make things easier to maintain Requirements: having a svn checkout of gnome-desktop and gnome-icon-theme

The gnome-desktop module installs some icons in /usr/share/pixmaps. Those icons are mostly old icons and duplicate of icons shipped by gnome-icon-theme that are installed in /usr/share/icons.

The goal is to identify, when possible, for each icon of gnome-desktop a relevant icon in gnome-icon-theme which can replace the gnome-desktop icon.

For example, gnome-image-gif.png (in gnome-desktop) should be replaced by image-x-generic (in gnome-icon-theme).

Additionnaly, an initial patch to gnome-icon-theme to install symbolic links from /usr/share/pixmaps to the gnome-icon-theme icon can be made.

Links: gnome-desktop icons: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-desktop/trunk/pixmaps/ gnome-icon-theme repository: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/

I claim this task.

Welcome on board!

The time limit for this task is one week. If you have any question, just ask :-)

The list so far:

apple-green: none apple-red: none gnome-aorta: emblem-favorite gnome-applets: none (what should this be anyway?) gnome-background: preferences-desktop-wallpaper gnome-background-image: none gnome-background-pattern: none gnome-calc2: accessories-calculator gnome-calc3: accessories-calculator gnome-calendar: x-office-calendar gnome-ccbackground: preferences-desktop-wallpaper gnome-ccdesktop: user-desktop gnome-ccdialog: none (perhaps gnome-settings-ui-behavior?) gnome-ccmime: none gnome-ccperiph: none gnome-ccscreensaver: preferences-desktop-screensaver gnome-ccwindowmanager: preferences-system-windows gnome-color-browser: none gnome-color-xterm: utilities-terminal gnome-computer: computer gnome-cromagnon: what is this? gnome-day: none gnome-debian: none gnome-diskfree: none gnome-emacs: none (perhaps accessories-text-editor?) gnome-eterm: utilities-terminal gnome-file-c: text-x-generic gnome-file-h: text-x-generic gnome-folder: folder gnome-gemvt: utilities-terminal gnome-gimp: none gnome-gmenu: none gnome-gmush: none gnome-gnomoku: none gnome-home: user-home gnome-html: web-browser gnome-gif: image-x-generic gnome-jpeg: image-x-generic gnome-irc: none (im-nov is pretty close) gnome-laptop: computer gnome-log: ?! gnome-logo-icon: start-here gnome-logo-icon-transparent: start-here gnome-logo-large: none gnome-mdi: none (preferences-system-windows is close) gnome-mnemonic: none gnome-month: none gnome-mouse: input-mouse gnome-news: none gnome-note: none gnome-qeye: none gnome-set-time: none (appointment-soon is nearly right) gnome-spider: none gnome-squeak: none gnome-suse: none gnome-talk: none gnome-term: utilities-terminal gnome-term-linux: utilities-terminal gnome-term-linux2: utilities-terminal gnome-term-night: utilities-terminal gnome-term-tiger: utilities-terminal gnome-tigert: none gnome-touristinfo: none gnome-user-interface: none (gnome-settings-ui-behavior) gnome-week: none gnome-windows: properties-system-windows gnome-word: accessories-text-editor gnome-xterm: utilities-terminal gtkvim: accessories-text-editor kterm: utilities-terminal monitor: video-display (wrong size) vterm: utilities-terminal

Please tell me what you think about it, especially the missing ones. I´ll proceed with the patches to gnome-icon-theme and gnome-desktop now.

Patch for gnome-desktop attached.

Patch for gnome-icon-theme attached.

So, what do you think?

Hi! Vincent asked me to take a look at this. The list looks good, although I would "gnome-html: web-browser" to use text-html instead, as the gnome-gif and gnome-jpg imply that all three have been used for mimetypes.

Looks like a good start. The gnome-icon-theme is probably not the best way to do it, though: I think we want a symbolic link from /usr/share/icons/gnome/48x48/something/iconname.png to /usr/share/pixmaps/iconname.png.

It turns out most of the icons are not installed in 48x48 size, and directly to svg, though. Hrm. Well, that's not your fault.

You've done what was asked, so marking as completed. If you want to continue on this a bit (and you're more than welcome to do so), some icons like gnome-diskfree can be replaced by other icons (generally, app icons and in this case, the baobab one).

Thanks, and congratulations!

Hi andreasn.pixel, to me, gnome-html looks more like a web browser than a HTML file, but I admit that it could mean both. So for which option should we go?

Additional icons: gnome-note: http://library.gnome.org/skin/admon-note.png gnome-set-time: gnome-panel-clock gnome-diskfree: baobab gnome-tourist-info: gnome-panel-notification-area? http://library.gnome.org/skin/ admon-tip.png? That´s all I could find.

I unfortunately forgot to delete gnome-house and gnome-html in the patch.

Hi k.philipp. Yeah, that one is tricky. I would go for html file. What do you think Vuntz?