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Bug 169998 - floppy and cdrom unmounted icon as used in drivemount hard to distinguish
floppy and cdrom unmounted icon as used in drivemount hard to distinguish
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: adwaita-icon-theme
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jakub Steiner
Jakub Steiner
: 142271 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-11 20:23 UTC by Tommi Komulainen
Modified: 2006-07-08 22:09 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10



Description Tommi Komulainen 2005-03-11 20:23:45 UTC
The drivemount applet is showing two identical icons which makes it somewhat
harder to distinguish the button for usb and cdrom.  And there doesn't seem to
be any way to change the icons.
Comment 1 Thierry Moisan 2005-06-12 01:39:10 UTC
I think there should be a cd-rom in front of the cd-rom drive and a floppy on
the front of the floppy drive. Also a usb sign (the three pointers thing) in
front of a usb device. 

There is also no difference for a cd-rom drive and a floppy drive wich can be
confusing sometimes. 

Also it would be a great idea to maybe put different colors on the cd-rom or
floppy or usb sign to be able to distinguish two cd-rom/floppy/usb drives at the
first look. Colors shouldn't be random so that after some time we know that, for
example, blue is the first one and red is the second one. 
Comment 2 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2005-06-12 01:43:14 UTC
I just plugged in my jumpdrive.

It shows up as a grey box (harddrive?) with a USB icon superimposed on top of it.

Seems OK to me.
Comment 3 Thierry Moisan 2005-06-12 01:52:03 UTC
Good, but there is still no difference between a floppy drive and a cd-rom
drive. Except of course the label shown when you pass over the drives with your
mouse. But what we want here is something to show quickly what is the drive.
Comment 4 Danielle Madeley 2005-06-12 05:08:52 UTC
This is not a gnome-applets bug. We're now using the icon theme to get the icons
for those boxes, so the problem is that the 16x16 icons in the standard theme
are hard to distinguish. I'm going to reassign this.
Comment 5 Jakub Steiner 2005-06-13 12:20:31 UTC
Sounds like a valid issue. Would you guys agree that making the floppy icon have
a much larger "hole" and perhaps adding some color to it would solve this?
Comment 6 Thierry Moisan 2005-06-13 21:00:52 UTC
Yeah I think it would be a good idea since adding a floppy disk would be hard in
an icon of that size. I think we could also add a little button on it like when
you put a floppy disk in a floppy drive and that you have to push this button to
take it out. 
Comment 7 Ed Catmur 2005-11-06 16:23:53 UTC
This should be folded into bug 309324 - request for lots of unmounted hardware
icons.
Comment 8 Lionel Dricot 2006-04-12 10:23:02 UTC
*** Bug 142271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Rodney Dawes 2006-07-08 22:09:35 UTC
I'm marking this fixed. The current icons in CVS are distinct. The drive-cdrom icon has a CD sticking out, and the drive-removable-media icon has a slot with a pushbutton. The media-* icons are obviously distinguished as well.