GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 154588
Define how to use window icons
Last modified: 2020-12-04 18:19:32 UTC
In some themes, a window icon is always shown in the top left corner of all dialogs but the HIG doesn't specify what this icon should be (e.g. app icon or icon of the menu item that launched it). Hived off from bug 154551
Pulling in from what I wrote before. Currently we have a section on Icons in reference to Documents, Applications, Toolbars, and Menus. I'm wondering if Application dialogs, such as print dialogs, are special enough cases were we'd want to represent them with a gtk-print icon instead of using the application or document icon. This applies to dialogs are of standard type: open, save, and print; and even probably alert dialogs as well, but I thought they already did this. We have a couple cases here: Use the Application Icon for the dialog window. 1) In the case of a document centric app - the visible icon may be different from the applications icon. 2) In the other case - it uses the same app icon for all the dialog windows Use the Document icon for dialog window In 1) the visible icon is the same as the dialog In 2) this case doesn't really exist My view is that keeping consistant icons is the best method. Using the Application icon can be a good method, except in the case of document centric apps where the icon doesn't relate to the document. So it might be good to use the document icon, however some documents don't have icons and we fall back to the app icon which doesn't really relate as well to the dialog or the document. My feeling is that going with a standard 'print' icon for the printer dialog everywhere, as well as an 'open' icon for the file open dialog, and so on would make the most sense. I need to figure out a little bit more of the consequences on the entire desktop if this is done, but on a first pass this seems a reasonable way to keep these dialog icons somewhat more sane.
We don't recommend window icons any more.