GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 159384
VisualBoy Advance icons request
Last modified: 2006-07-05 15:41:49 UTC
We need new GNOME-ish icon for our project. + Icon for the GB SP mascot - (all sizes that I sent to u) + Mimetype for .GB .GBC and .GBA Thanks in advance.
What's the mimetype of these files?
Let's not add more specific mime types to the icon theme. Ideally, the default icon theme would be as generic as possible. As soon as we have a standard way of doing generic fallbacks for mime types, and it is implemented in gtk+/gnome, I am going to remove all the specific type icons in favor of the generics.
what if you removed them from the Makfiles so they're not installed anymore and I'll add these without adding them either. I'd love to keep these in a central repository.
To Jakub: .GB mimetype will depict the Gameboy Mono ROM .GBC mimetype will depict the Gameboy Color ROM .GBA mimetype will depict the Gameboy Advance ROM
Jones: The file extension doesn't specify what the mime type is. MIME types are of the form application/x-foo and such. Surely there are x-types for these roms, no? Jakub: I don't know. I suppose we should be installing them all, until we can get the generic implementation stuff in place. I'll write up mail about it today, and see if we can't get something done in the next couple of weeks.
Confirm: Actually, no one has set the standard mimetype for GB ROM, so I propose x-rom-gb, x-rom-gbc, x-rom-gba. Comments welcome.
Jones, is this different to what you dexcribe as x-rom-gb? application/x-gameboy-rom: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i47/gnome-application-x-gameboy-rom.png
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i89/gameboy-advanced.png should do for an app icon
Sweet, it's better if u can make it thicker? (I reckon)
QUOTE: Jones, is this different to what you dexcribe as x-rom-gb? application/x-gameboy-rom: http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i47/gnome-application-x-gameboy-rom.png ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, that's right!
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i89/gnome-application-x-gameboy-rom2.png http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i89/gnome-application-x-gameboy-color-rom2.png http://jimmac.musichall.cz/ikony/i89/gnome-application-x-gameboy-advanced-rom2.png For the MIME types. I'm not going to commit these to the gnome icon theme until the mimetype is agreed upon.
Jakub, they're so pretty! But I think you should change the label of GB mimetype from GBoy to GB. And Jakub, can u make different size version of the GBA SP logo? I need 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 64x64. Thanks in advance. You rock Jakub!
*** Bug 311258 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think gnome-icon-theme would be a better place for this.
Jakub, can you finish other sizes for the main icon please?
Doing a group confirm.
G-I-T is not supposed to ship icons for applications like this, those would have to be provided by the application and installed to hicolor. Can we close this bug?
Indeed. Closing. Jones, Ryan Collier (http://pseudocode.org) has been working on some tango-styled console icons IIRC, try poking him if he wouldn't have the time to help you out.
Just to clarify, applications SHOULD NOT install MIME type icons into another theme. If two applications handle the same MIME type, and want to provide different icons for it, they both can't install the same file to hicolor.
Oh well I was under the impression that this was only about an application icon... about the mime icons, wouldn't the "right" way be to put a generic "rom" icon into t-i-t and g-i-t and update the icon naming utils to link to all the rom mime types supported in the mime spec?
No. The right way would be to have a generic rom icon, and fall back through the icon names to it, and not require all the symlinks. And we also need a way for apps to install MIME type icons. There's been some discussion about adding a way to specify icons in the MIME xml files in $datadir/mime/packages/, but it's not yet in the spec or implementations.