GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 642638
Provide gsd-xrandr icons (as links to preferences-desktop-display)
Last modified: 2012-10-11 14:46:35 UTC
Forwarding https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673106 The icon used by gnome-settings-daemon for xrandr is slightly different from the icon displayed to open the display settings. See attached screenshot. We can simply choose to create gsd-xrandr icons, that would be links to preferences-desktop-display. Or we can fix g-s-d to use preferences-desktop-display instead of gsd-xrandr. This second solution isn't really perfect, though, as the hicolor icon is shipped in gnome-control-center...
Created attachment 181184 [details] screenshot
I don't quite get what you mean by 'create gsd-xrandr icons'. I can't see the current situation as confusing at all. The panel applet and the control center settings do pretty much the same thing, but with a different UI. The icons use the same metaphor, but have a slightly different color map. Where's the possible confusion exactly? At the same time, I don't mind having both use preferences-desktop-display. In any case, I don't see this as a gnome-icon-theme issue?
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't quite get what you mean by 'create gsd-xrandr icons'. I mean just having gsd-xrandr symlinks to preferences-desktop-display. We don't want a new icon, we just want to use the same :-) > I can't see the current situation as confusing at all. The panel applet and the > control center settings do pretty much the same thing, but with a different UI. > The icons use the same metaphor, but have a slightly different color map. > Where's the possible confusion exactly? I don't think it's confusing either -- the downstream reporter believes so, but I think it's just not consistent. > At the same time, I don't mind having both use preferences-desktop-display. In > any case, I don't see this as a gnome-icon-theme issue? Here's the thing: the current icon (preferences-desktop-display) is shipped in gnome-control-center. And gnome-settings-daemon doesn't depend on gnome-control-center, so it can't assume this icon is installed. That's why gnome-settings-daemon ships its own gsd-xrandr icons, I guess. Now, gnome-icon-theme could fix this because it also provides preferences-desktop-display icons. On top of that, it could provide gsd-xrandr symlinks to the preferences-desktop-display icons. A bit like the gucharmap symlinks it installs. Maybe it should be done in icon-naming-utils, though? Don't know how to best handle that.
preferences-desktop-display ships with gnome-icon-theme as far as I can tell...
(In reply to comment #4) > preferences-desktop-display ships with gnome-icon-theme as far as I can tell... The one in hicolor is from gnome-control-center :-) And you can't assume that the user will have a theme inheriting from the gnome one.
Thanks for the quick handling of the regarding bug. An inconsistent use of icons lead to confusion. Hence the term confusion in my downstream bug description.
This one seems not related and resolved now, closing. Fell free to reopen if I'm wrong.