GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 684406
RAID / disk-enclosure icon
Last modified: 2012-12-06 22:02:03 UTC
For GNOME 3.8, Disks will include support for Linux Software RAID (aka MD-RAID). I am currently using an icon that looks like an enclosure for this http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-mdraid-20120919-1.png and am currently shipping that icon with the gnome-disk-utility tarball. I originally got the icon from Jimmac and I think he has the sources for it. http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-disk-utility/tree/data/icons?h=wip/mdraid However, for use in GVfs, we need the icon to be in gnome-icon-theme since GVfs will start returning named icons for objects representing the MD-RAID array. Since these icons will show up in the file chooser and Files, we are also going to need a symbolic version of the icon. I suggest to use the name 'disk-enclosure' for this icon.
I'm afraid I'm not the author. Lapo? Do you have the sources for this one?
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm afraid I'm not the author. Lapo? Do you have the sources for this one? My bad, this icon was done by Mike Langlie when he was at Red Hat (he left a while ago). I'm not sure the sources (Photoshop format, I think) exist anymore, but if you want I can try and find them?
If it's Photoshop/bitmap, it's not really very useful. We'll redraw it.
(In reply to comment #3) > If it's Photoshop/bitmap, it's not really very useful. The only thing I got from Mike was the SVG file which is already in git in data/icons/scalable (see comment 0). > We'll redraw it. Sounds good to me too - thanks!
Hi, any update on this? Btw, I've changed my view on the naming. Instead of disk-enclosure (which I think we want to reserve for physical disk enclosures and not RAID stuff), I think it should be drive-multidisk this way we can always add drive-multidisk-raid drive-multidisk-raid-level1 drive-multidisk-raid-level5 drive-multidisk-raid-level6 drive-multidisk-raid-level10 drive-multidisk-btrfs drive-multidisk-btrfs-singleparity drive-multidisk-btrfs-dualparity and so on if we decide we want more detail (I totally don't think we do but I like to keep the door open). I would also like to ask for a symbolic icon, e.g. drive-multidisk-symbolic so it looks right in Files and the File Chooser. Thanks!
http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2009/july/garrityslawof
(In reply to comment #6) > http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2009/july/garrityslawof I disagree that there's no "obvious visual metaphor" for RAID arrays - it's clearly a box filled with disk drives. Anyway, I'll just continue to ship the existing icon in the gnome-disk-utility package.
You'll get drive-multidisk in a few minutes. I was referring to all the kinds of raid arrays. You'd essentially be duplicating a label by sticking a badge on it or something along those lines. Personally I'd go for one generic icon for these.
(In reply to comment #8) > You'll get drive-multidisk in a few minutes. Great, thanks. > I was referring to all the kinds > of raid arrays. You'd essentially be duplicating a label by sticking a badge on > it or something along those lines. > > Personally I'd go for one generic icon for these. Yeah, I just wanted to leave it open in the icon naming spec.
I've now changed udisks and gnome-disk-utility to use this new icon name. With the latest g-i-t it looks like this: http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-disks-new-raid-icon.png Thanks a bunch!
Btw, is it possible to get a symbolic icon too? Right now (with udisks2 and gvfs tip-of-tree), it looks like this with the Files application http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-missing-symbolic-raid-icon.png The name should be drive-multidisk-symbolic. Thanks.
Added to gnome-icon-theme-symbolic master. Not very keen on it, but better than nothing.