[Tango-artists] Icon ideas required

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 10:36:04 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 13:32 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:41 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I'm working on an Inhibit/UnInhibit applet for GNOME.
> > 
> > See http://hughsient.livejournal.com/9519.html for more details, but
> > basically this lets users use programs that can't be patched to use the
> > Inhibit() interface like matlab and vmware.
> > 
> > I'm thinking I need some icons like "busy" and "idle" to go in the
> > taskbar but I'm open to ideas for other visual metaphors. I was a little
> > surprised to not see idle and busy in the icon theme spec, as I assumed
> > this would be used by other programs.
> 
> Busy is in the naming spec. It's under Animations. The problem with
> having a generic "busy" or "idle" status icon though, is that it
> provides no context. If you have 10 things that are all "idle" in
> your panel, what icon should they use? The same "idle" icon? That
> doesn't really make sense. It sounds like you need specialized icons
> for your specialized applet. The stuff in the naming spec is meant
> to be generic stuff that ALL desktops will have.

Yes, I can agree with that. Do you have any ideas for Inhibit specific
idle actions?

Thanks.




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