GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 584262
use gnome-icon-theme new icons
Last modified: 2009-08-28 22:20:22 UTC
Please describe the problem: There are brand new status icons in gnome-icon-theme, committed to trunk (preview http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=135593&action=view ) is it possible that empathy uses them instead of the old ones? Steps to reproduce: Actual results: Expected results: Does this happen every time? Other information:
Thanks for pointing me that. It seems to not respect the icon naming spec[1], which is in fact a good idea because I told many times that the spec is wrong. So is it correct to map our presence to those icons? MC_PRESENCE_OFFLINE -> user-offline MC_PRESENCE_AVAILABLE -> user-online MC_PRESENCE_AWAY -> user-away MC_PRESENCE_EXTENDED_AWAY -> user-idle ??? MC_PRESENCE_HIDDEN -> user-invisible MC_PRESENCE_DO_NOT_DISTURB -> user-busy [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
Well, I don't know... I've not designed those icons, but in my opinion you should invert away and idle. because idle means inactive (so MC_PRESENCE_AWAY, for a short period), and away means not here, gone in another place (so MC_PRESENCE_EXTENDED_AWAY, away for a long period). Do you confirm? (I'm not native english speaking)
Sorry, I was wrong. I checked the specification and idle means away for a long time!
Here's the link to the git commit, for interested people. I noticed that it is not in the master branch, I hope it will be merged. http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gnome-icon-theme/commit/?h=one-canvas&id=65b1065fb1bb246aa1b838a78449c6736aeecae4
I don't think "MC_PRESENCE_EXTENDED_AWAY -> user-idle" is the correct mapping: "away" is something I would use while watching tv or going for a short shopping trip. "extended away" seems to be a longer period for me... like going to vacations etc (for those who don't turn their PCs off...) That said, I don't see a way to set extended away with Empathy... maybe just use the same icon for both aways? If not, maybe a special extended away could be added to the spec... I was thinking of a small island, water, palm etc :)
Extended away is set automatically after 45 minutes or something like that (hardcoded value)
So empathy uses this like "auto away" (what pidgin calls it iirc)? Strange... Anyway, in addition to adding the status icons, another change in one-canvas was that the IM protocol icons have been removed, so Empathy will have to start ship it's own copies in 2.29. Taking a look at pidgin for the protocols is worth it imho, the ICQ icon for example is much nicer.
After a bit of google I think the problem with XA is that it means diffetent things in different clients/protocols but in any case, the idle icon is not a good match because XA normally means the user is not near the PC, while the idle icon seems to suggest he/she is sleeping in front of the PC...
Is this the same issue as bug #547261?
Yes
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 547261 ***