GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 331670
use theme icon "accessories-character-map"
Last modified: 2008-03-31 21:30:59 UTC
one should create a modern icon for gucharmap, for example, based on the Tango Icon Theme Guidelines. Something like an alpha letter on a map maybe...
Another idea is to just modernize the current icon which is the view of a keyboard key. I don't like that much, as that suggests something like an on-screen keyboard or keybord-layout selector more...
I think the current metaphor is pretty okay, I will ask #tango to give the icon a Tangoey face-lift. Useful resource: http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppIcon
Gucharmap should probably pick up the accessories-character-map icon from the icon theme. http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/32x32/apps/accessories-character-map.png As a bonus, I we have this in the HighContrast set as well!
So, Andreas, should we rename the icon to accessories-character-map? Or how is that picked up automatically?
Should just be a matter of change from Icon=gucharmap.png to: Icon=accessories-character-map in the .desktop-file
Humm, and in About dialog setup too, and in the Makefile too? I'm confused. Should gucharmap install the icon as accessories-character-map too? In that case that will conflict with gnome-icon-theme. If not, what's the point of installing an icon and using another one for the .desktop file?
Sorry for being unclear. As it's in the icon-theme, you don't have to install your own icon. Yeah, use it in the About dialog as well.
What gucharmap should do is update the source and desktop file to point at "accessories-character-map" from the theme, and not install a "gucharmap" icon.
(In reply to comment #8) > What gucharmap should do is update the source and desktop file to point at > "accessories-character-map" from the theme, and not install a "gucharmap" icon. So, is that what most GNOME apps do these days? It also means that gucharmap will have a broken icon if installed without gnome-icon-theme. Do we care?
While most GNOME apps install their own icon these days, basic apps, like the character map, the file-manager, calculator etc. are covered by the naming-spec and cam be expected to be covered by all icon-sets following the icon-naming-spec [1] I would assume that gnome-icon-theme is installed on most systems that people run gucharmap on. On kde, oxygen-icon-theme [2] covers these names. 1. http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#names (see Table 4. Standard Application Icons) 2. http://www.oxygen-icons.org/
Thanks Andreas.
*** Bug 509726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in svn.