GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614215
Use symbolic icons for applet
Last modified: 2010-06-10 13:51:48 UTC
The battery "applet" should use the new low color symbolic icons. The only change that should be needed is to append the string "-symbolic" to the requested icon name. All system status indicators should be moving to this design.
Actually, that isn't quite true. We'll need to modify the names of the icons used and some of the logic too.
Currently the theme only has the following icons: battery-critical-charging-symbolic.svg battery-critical-symbolic.svg battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg battery-full-symbolic.svg battery-good-charging-symbolic.svg battery-good-symbolic.svg battery-low-charging-symbolic.svg battery-low-symbolic.svg battery-missing-symbolic.svg
(In reply to comment #0) > All system status indicators should be moving to this design. Is this something that has been decreed in the HIG? If so, I'll need to generate way more icons for g-p-m to use. How come there's a -symbolic suffix? Is there a requirement to keep the old non-symbolic icons?
We haven't written up formal guidelines yet. Some info here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons You can find the icons in git in gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.
(In reply to comment #2) > Currently the theme only has the following icons: > battery-critical-charging-symbolic.svg > battery-critical-symbolic.svg > battery-full-charging-symbolic.svg > battery-full-symbolic.svg > battery-good-charging-symbolic.svg > battery-good-symbolic.svg > battery-low-charging-symbolic.svg > battery-low-symbolic.svg > battery-missing-symbolic.svg I think some people are going to be upset but the lack of precision in the icon. The old range had 7 steps, and the new range seems to have 4 steps. I'm not that bothered, but quite a few people want more steps, not less. There is also the problem as you seem to be equating charging with charged, but this really isn't the same thing. There's also no empty state either. In the old scheme things went like this (charging): gpm-battery-020 gpm-battery-000 gpm-battery-empty (insert power adapter) gpm-battery-000-charging gpm-battery-020-charging gpm-battery-040-charging gpm-battery-060-charging gpm-battery-080-charging gpm-battery-100-charging gpm-battery-charged The new scheme seems to go: battery-low battery-critical (insert power adapter) battery-critical-charging battery-low-charging battery-good-charging battery-full-charging So you never see when the battery is charged or when the battery is empty (think multiple batteries in one laptop). This matters a lot to some people, as they might be charging multiple batteries or might want to remove the battery when it gets to 100% charged and is no longer charging to preserve battery lifetime.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.