GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 614964
Icon needs updating for hi-res
Last modified: 2011-03-15 12:38:34 UTC
Like Rhythmbox' in bug 614139
Lapo: what do you think, shall we update the metaphor? I don't think the icon is bad, but we shouldn't use the CD I reckon. We can use the film strip and a play icon on one of the frames or something?
(In reply to comment #1) > Lapo: what do you think, shall we update the metaphor? > I don't think the icon is bad, but we shouldn't use the CD I reckon. I think that disc was always supposed to be a DVD. > We can use the film strip and a play icon on one of the frames or something? In which case the film strip itself would probably need to be wider.
(In reply to comment #2) > (In reply to comment #1) > > Lapo: what do you think, shall we update the metaphor? > > I don't think the icon is bad, but we shouldn't use the CD I reckon. > > I think that disc was always supposed to be a DVD. Exactly my point :P Plus, in a while it would look just as stupid as the floppy icon for save. > > > We can use the film strip and a play icon on one of the frames or something? > > In which case the film strip itself would probably need to be wider. Yes, we have room for that if we get rid of the disc.
Created attachment 182721 [details] totem app icon including the highres The optical disc didn't add to the metaphor, so the app icon consists of only the film strip now. The included SVG is only a 'source' of the icon and is not intended to be installed.
Committed to master, thanks!
maybe it's because I'm so familiar with the previous icon with the clapperboard, but I feel the icon lose identification strength. the worst is not even the it's the default totem background or in the shell app switcher but in the icon next to the "Activities" menu: it's barely recognizable. I suppose the photographic film is hard to rework, but I think some of it should pass through the middle of the icon, if possible. Otherwise, 2/3 of the icon is blank space and make it hard to recognize. I'll attach a screenshot ASAP.
Created attachment 183176 [details] Totem icon next to activities in gnome-shell
Maybe slightly off-topic, but the obfuscating of the icon in GNOME-shell isn't very good practise anyway. We shouldn't make one way because they look bad in one place. Let's fix the shell instead. Obfuscating icons completely destroys the goal of an icon.
(In reply to comment #6) > maybe it's because I'm so familiar with the previous icon with the > clapperboard, but I feel the icon lose identification strength. Totem never used a clapperboard as its application icon. You're confusing it with the logo used in the main application[1], which we stopped using in GNOME 2.26, nearly 2 years ago. http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/plain/data/totem_logo.png?h=gnome-2-24 The current icon is a hi-res version of the old icon, minus the optical disc. > the worst is not even the it's the default totem background or in the shell app > switcher but in the icon next to the "Activities" menu: it's barely > recognizable. That's more a bug in gnome-shell than Totem's problem, as mentioned by Hylke.