GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 404353
gyrus lacks an icon
Last modified: 2018-07-11 12:54:14 UTC
Gyrus is really lacking an icon. It's pretty ugly to see the default application icon on it. This should be fixed before 0.4.
Created attachment 109269 [details] proposed icon by Jakub Szypulka Jakub Szypulka, one of the tango artists, has stepped in and proposed an icon for gyrus. I'm pasting here his comments on the icon he created. El lun, 14-04-2008 a las 20:52 +0200, Cube escribió: > I'm ready with the icon (or at least with a preview, if you don't like it). > I've created separate files for each icon, as it's usually done, one for > 48x48 px, one for 32x32, one for 22x22 and finally one for 16x16. > > I hope you'll like it. > > Umm well, I decided not to use a technical metaphor such as technical devices > (as you proposed on live.gnome.org), but instead took a perhaps at the first > look weird looking metaphor, a Gyros. This is traditional Greek and Turkish > food, and perhaps you know it (many people do -> it will be recognized!) > > I hope you like this kind of metaphor. It's perhaps not exactly mirroring what > your program does (:P), but I thought that it's going to be a nice idea, and > people will remember and associate it with Gyrus. First of all, thanks a lot for your work! The icon looks pretty nice and remembers me of both gyros and kebab food, that I ate a lot when I lived in Germany :-) Now, to the topic. Unfortunately, I'm not 100% sure that it's ok to use such a metaphor for icons in the GNOME Desktop. I remember some discussions, a while ago, that using metaphors that could help remember how the program is named instead of what it does could bring problem in different contexts. A live example is the icon of an old application that was a viewer for the system log, whose icon was that: a log. Unfortunately, for non english speakers the metaphor was not clear (p.g., spanish of log is "tronco", which is not at all related to a system log). I'm afraid that your icon could suffer the same problem. Although I'm sure the metaphor would do in Europe and I guess in Asia, as well, I know for sure that kebab and gyros food is not a popular food in Latin America, and it's something really new here.
Yeah, sorry Jakub, but even though the icon looks nice, it's just too weird. Perhaps we can brainstorm a bit on IRC sometime this week and come up with something better.
How about having a tango version of the cyrus logo? (cf http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/)
Hm, since I can't see a good metaphor for it and I suppose that for cyrus users the cyrus logo must be easily recognizable, it "could be" a good idea. I would try first to be sure that we aren't stepping on a branded logo and stuff like that.
gyrus is not under active development anymore and had its last code changes in 2013. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/gyrus/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.