GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 533538
Remove deprecated and unused icons
Last modified: 2008-06-08 20:54:36 UTC
Please describe the problem: Some icons are deprecated/replaced/unused hence they should be removed. Following is a kill-list: 48x48/apps administration.png -- unsure advanced-directory.png -- unsure apacheconf.png -- used by gnome services setting, not yet safe to remove applets-screenshooter.png --bug:440605 soon to be deprecated character-picker.png -- unsure config-date.png -- unsure config-xfree.png -- unsure disks.png -- unsure eyes.png -- safe to remove, been deprecated gdm.png -- safe to remove gnome-amusements.png -- unsure gnome-audio.png -- safe to remove gnome-desktop-config.png -- safe to remove gnome-favorites.png -- safe to remove gnome-finance.png -- safe to remove gnome-networktool.png -- safe to remove gnome-pdf.png -- safe to remove, gnome-pdf is no longer maintained and should have the icon installed seperately gnome-searchtool-animation-rest.png -- being used, should moved to hicolor gnome-searchtool-animation.png -- same as above gnome-server-config.png -- unsure, still being used by gnome services setting gnome-settings-accessibility-keyboard.png -- unsure, used by many programs gnome-settings-default-applications.png -- not yet, till the bug to design a good metaphor for this icon is done gnome-settings-sound.png -- safe to remove gnome-system-config.png -- safe to remove gnome-unknown.png -- save to remove hint.png -- unsure hwbrowser.png -- only known being used by hwlist im.png -- safe to remove launcher-program.png -- unsure network-config.png -- safe to remove palm-pilot-sync.png -- not yet, however we should remove since we have the equivalent fd.o spec icon palm-pilot.png -- being know used by gnome-pilot, and gnome-volume-manager, going to be replace by icon spec 'pda' postscript-viewer.png -- safe to remove serviceconf.png -- unsure stock-ticker.png -- safe to remove visor.png -- unsure 48x48/actions ============== All are safe to remove 48x48/devices ============== the jazz drive -- unsure 48x48/emblems ============== This is one of a goal of 2.24, i am not so sure if git going to use size 48 or migrate to size 32 48x48/filesystems ================= Very obsolete, I think it's safe to deprecate it now 48x48/stock ================= Many obsolete icons but it's probably need more time to fully remove this. There are cases where icons are no longer used such as gnome-setting-ui, im-*, etc. And also there are cases where icons should be moved to proper hicolor folder. Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
How exactly did you determine what is and is not possibly removable?
What I did so far is recursively looking for the icon names within the source code of the program. Yes, it'd be for the best if we setup a wiki on live.gnome.org and let each programs specify if they still or not use any of the pixmap icons. What do you think?
I think your assessment is wrong, and I think newer maintainers of significantly older code might not have a good idea of what icons their module is using, and so a wiki page that they have to update probably would not be very reliable either. I've already found at least one issue with your assessment, as gnome-unknown is in fact used by gnome-panel's code, and so it is not safe to remove immediately, as you state it is.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 346621 ***