GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309324
request for hardware icons
Last modified: 2020-11-26 14:41:25 UTC
Hi, This is a feature request for more icons as gnome-vfs now has the capability to display drives even when there is no media. See this message http://mail.gnome.org/archives/utopia-list/2005-June/msg00003.html for details. I realize I'm asking for a lot of icons here so I would be happy if we could just to get a few - the list is prioritised :-). Much thanks in advance. 1. Icons like gnome-dev-removable only with the media shown along with the drive just like the existing gnome-dev-removable-usb http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-icon-theme/48x48/devices/gnome-dev-removable-usb.png?rev=1.1 only with e.g. the suitable media instead of the USB logo. This is such that the user can make a distinction of his drives. For example see http://freedesktop.org/~david/gnome-vfs-hacking-2.png where it would be nice to show e.g. a CF emblem (like gnome-dev-media-cf) on top of the drive icon for "Compact Flash Drive". Here are the icons requested: gnome-dev-removable-cdrom gnome-dev-removable-cdwriter gnome-dev-removable-cf gnome-dev-removable-ms gnome-dev-removable-sm gnome-dev-removable-sdmmc gnome-dev-removable-floppy gnome-dev-removable-tape gnome-dev-removable-camera gnome-dev-removable-ipod gnome-dev-removable-zip gnome-dev-removable-jaz 3. This is another device type for USB pendrives. KDE uses the icon linked from here (I don't really like this particular icon but I guess it illustrates what I mean with pen drive) http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-artists&m=108076149616075&w=2 Request icons for both the drive and the mounted state gnome-dev-removable-pendrive gnome-dev-pendrive 3. SCSI is a bus type we're missing (already have USB and Firewire). The SCSI logo is shown on top of this page http://www.scsifaq.org/. Request icons for both the drive and the mounted state gnome-dev-removable-scsi gnome-dev-harddisk-scsi 4. Also, we're missing two disc icons, one for DVD+RW discs and one for DVD+R Double Layer discs gnome-dev-disc-dvdrw-plus gnome-dev-disc-dvdr-plus-dl Much thanks.
If I'm not misunderstanding, a lot of these icons are already in place. Just use the 16x16 version of gnome-dev-cdrom etc on top of gnome-dev-removable? I'm not particularly fond of the idea of emblems like that unless the current system goes away (which should happen, since custom emblems in its current incarnation fairly pointless).
> If I'm not misunderstanding, a lot of these icons are already in place. Just use > the 16x16 version of gnome-dev-cdrom etc on top of gnome-dev-removable? That would work... it's really something that is up to you as graphics designer I think.. At the end of the day it's just another icon.. e.g. the "use 16x16 version of gnome-dev-cdrom on top of gnome-dev-removable" is something the graphics designer would do when creating the icons gnome-dev-removable-* I think. > I'm not particularly fond of the idea of emblems like that unless the current > system goes away (which should happen, since custom emblems in its current > incarnation fairly pointless). I really like to keep the icons separate as it gives more freedom to graphics designers theming the GNOME desktop. Or did I misunderstand you? Cheers, David
It would still be good with some more icons but at this point please also see the discussion re the icon-naming spec and icons for storage here http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2006-January/007655.html Maybe someday we'll have these icons and things like this window http://freedesktop.org/~david/icons-unmounted.png will be history and less :-). Thanks.
I guess this one is out of date now, can we close it?
Well we now have the gnome-icon-theme-extras module for the specific device icons. While the gnome-dev prefix is outdated, and specific device and mimetype icons don't go into the base theme, it would be nice to have them in gvfs or gnome-icon-theme extras.
Moving to -extras
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