GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 346621
Tango refresh cleanup
Last modified: 2008-06-15 15:31:26 UTC
Now that g-i-t is supposed to be switched over to tango naming/style, I took the time to go over the current tree and look for potential problems. Here's the first batch of stuff I noticed: Icons overlapping with new icons/symlinks that are already in "categories" (these have to simply be removed for the new ones to be displayed): 24x24/apps/gnome-control-center.png 24x24/apps/gnome-devel.png 24x24/apps/gnome-globe.png 24x24/apps/gnome-graphics.png 24x24/apps/gnome-joystick.png 24x24/apps/gnome-settings.png 24x24/apps/gnome-multimedia.png 24x24/apps/gnome-office.png 48x48/apps/gnome-settings.png Icons overlapping with new icons/symlinks that are already in "places" (these have to simply be removed for the new ones to be displayed):: 24x24/apps/gnome-desktop-config.png 48x48/apps/gnome-desktop-config.png Icons for apps... as those are supposed to be shipped with the specific app, they should be removed now to give the maintainers time to get new icons (most are non-desktop andyway, gnome-monitor and screensaver being the only two still relevant for the desktop I guess): 24x24/apps/beep-media-player.png 24x24/apps/burner.png 24x24/apps/gaim.png 24x24/apps/gdm.png 24x24/apps/gftp.png 24x24/apps/postscript-viewer.png 24x24/apps/shares.png 24x24/apps/screensaver.png 24x24/apps/tsclient.png 24x24/apps/gnome-monitor.png 24x24/apps/gaim.png 48x48/apps/beast.png 48x48/apps/burner.png 48x48/apps/dia_gnome_icon.png 48x48/apps/gdm.png 48x48/apps/gnome-ftp.png 48x48/apps/gnome-pdf.png 48x48/apps/hwbrowser.png 48x48/apps/im.png 48x48/apps/screensaver.png 48x48/apps/sodipodi.png 48x48/apps/tsclient.png 48x48/apps/wine.png 48x48/apps/xsane.png Icons that can be removed from the package because they are unused: 24x24/apps/administration.png 24x24/apps/advanced-directory.png 24x24/apps/apacheconf.png 24x24/apps/character-picker.png 24x24/apps/clock.png 48x48/apps/administration.png 48x48/apps/advanced-directory.png 48x48/apps/apacheconf.png 48x48/apps/character-picker.png 48x48/apps/clock.png 48x48/apps/gnome-reboot.png 48x48/apps/gnome-server-config.png 48x48/apps/gnome-starthere.png 48x48/apps/gnome-system-config.png 48x48/apps/network-config.png 48x48/apps/serviceconf.png I would like to further help with this (e.g. removal of 48x48 icons and stuff, pushing app icons upstream into those packages...) but I don't know if a bugzilla report like this is useful for you, please comment.
Assigning to the chief icon butcher.
I've gone through and dealt with most of these now. There's a few left. Everything that you list as unused here, is used somewhere, with the exception of maybe gnome-starthere and gnome-reboot.
The complete 48x48 dir contains deprecated icons. Wouldn't it be a good idea to remove these and the icons Michael is mentioning at the beginning of the 2.23 release cycle. There are not many apps anymore that use the old icons, and removing these icons would motivate them to ship there own icons
Yay! I'm all for that, Rodney what do you think?
Ugh, one of those ancient bugs... ;) My notes for 2.23 include a) removal of stock_bluetooth and b) moving scalable/ to 48x48/ (we talked about this some weeks ago on #tango)
Since we're now in 2.23 what about removing these 48x48 icons
*** Bug 533538 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It is not only with size 48x48, there are other sizes too. I proposed a wiki page to report the status of icons usage for each apps however Rodney argued it was not very reliable way. Anyone has good methodology suggestion?
All the icons listed in this bug report are gone now. The following still remain in (possibly) multiple sizes as they are still being used: applets-screenshooter (we should get a gnome-screenshot icon into gnome-utils) gnome-settings-default-applications palm-pilot-sync palm-pilot visor That said, I'm closing this bug now.