GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 455564
Make some sense to icon selection
Last modified: 2007-07-11 10:07:15 UTC
Right click on for instance application launcher icon, properties, click on icon button. The dialog window is really confusing, requiring user to understand where icon files reside, both user specific (~/....) and system wide (/usr/share/icons/...). It is hard to find icons and change them to fit specific icon themes. Make this dialog act sane. Other information:
Created attachment 91547 [details] Dummy of a better dialog This is a quick dummy that I made of a saner dialog! Please notice that using this sort of approach if you for instance select the amarok.svg of Tango set and change to other icon theme, it is possible for the dialog to try to find and automatically select the equivalent icon of the an other theme! Also, it is possible for this sort of dialog to combine both user specific and system wide icon sets into one nice gui. Furthermore, there can be an actually working search system, say based on the canonical icon names for the very beginning.. Just type in "italics" and voila - the icon that is used on applications etc for italics button. Just a quick dummy, with lots of small details still to be corrected. But definitely worth implementing imho
Yet an other comment, because I forgot one thing. In case there is a need for installing just one specific icon manually, couldn't you just create a "misc" for them... So the advanced "browse..." from the original dialog is actually useless. Just put the special icons to ~/.icons/misc/ or something like that.
That's basically bug 310288. We need someone to actually do the work in GTK+. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 310288 ***