[Tango-artists] Patch for Lock icon mappings

[Rodney Dawes]

On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 19:01 -0400, Steven Garrity wrote:
> This little patch adds mappings for the 'locked' and 'unlocked' icons in 
> the legacy-icon-mapping.xml file in icon-naming-utils.
> 
> You can see these icons in action in the status bar of Epiphany (or a 
> patched Firefox with Gtk icon support).

Jakub and I discussed this on IRC a little while back, when he sent me a
patch for the spec, which adds these two icons. The icon is fairly
ambiguous, especially in Epiphany, where HTTP Auth requiring sites, pop
up a dialog asking for your password, with a lock icon in it. It would
be nice to use some other icon for showing whether a connection is or is
not encrypted. A shield perhaps. Something that says more about security
than access levels. To me, a lock is more about access using passwords,
than encryption with SSL.

Therefore, I'm not going to put this patch in. We need to figure out a
better way to deal with the lock icons. The names are not that good, and
the metaphors are a bit off with them anyway. Tango is more about
quality than quantity, in terms of the icons. We want to improve the way
they are used, while reducing their numbers, rather than just providing
as many icons as already exist in gnome-icon-theme or crystalsvg.

-- dobey