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Bug 310402 - Make symlink emblems less intrusive, provide all sizes
Make symlink emblems less intrusive, provide all sizes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: adwaita-icon-theme
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jakub Steiner
Jakub Steiner
: 340144 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 99926
 
 
Reported: 2005-07-14 19:11 UTC by Vincent Noel
Modified: 2006-07-08 21:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

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2005-08-22 12:06 UTC, Michael Monreal 		Details

Description Vincent Noel 2005-07-14 19:11:49 UTC 
from bug #99926 :

Much of a symlink's power comes from its complete transparency, and that
should be true in a graphical representation as well.
Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2005-07-16 23:12:49 UTC 
I don't quite understand the reason behind this duplicate of #99926?
Comment 2 Vincent Noel 2005-07-17 03:48:50 UTC 
Well I thought that the symlink icon came from gnome-icon-theme, but I may be mistaken...
Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2005-07-17 08:41:35 UTC 
The git includes the symlink icon. But what is it you propose here?
Comment 4 Vincent Noel 2005-07-17 14:47:17 UTC 
Well according to the report in bug #99926, the symlink icon is too intrusive - ie it takes too much space 
on the file icon and is visually distractive. So I was hoping the symlink icon could be make smaller, half-
translucent or something like that. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Comment 5 Michael Monreal 2005-08-22 12:06:00 UTC 
Created attachment 51113 [details]
Screenshot

Ok, I'll avoid opening my own bug, because it would be about the link emblem
again and this bug seems to be close enogh. 

My problem is specific to the list view. Icon view seems fine but in list view,
emblems are just placed ontop of the folder/file icon. While I see why this can
make sense for the list view (generally, those icons will be smaller) I don't
like wow links are displayed (see screenshot), it looks really bad.
Comment 6 Jakub Steiner 2005-08-22 12:28:30 UTC 
Alright then, let's make this to not be a button and provide at 16x16, 24x24 and
scalable then.
Comment 7 Rodney Dawes 2006-05-17 15:00:57 UTC 
*** Bug 340144 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Rodney Dawes 2006-07-08 21:49:13 UTC 
The new symlink emblem icon is less intrusive (just a gray arrow), and is provided in 8x8, 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, 32x32, and 48x48 scalable sizes. Fixed in CVS.