[Tango-artists] whither addressbook?

[Nathan Willis]

On 4/14/06, Jakub Steiner <jimmac at novell.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2006-04-14 at 12:07 -0500, Nathan Willis wrote:
> > Well, I did notice that, but I think it still leaves the underlying
> > question unanswered: why is there no addressbook app icon?
> >
> > I'll be happy to document my adventures on Symbian, of course.  At
> > this stage in the game, the missing pieces are the big obstacle.
> >
> > (While we're on the subject: there's no clock icon either, which is
> > kind of important.  And why is there both an "office-calendar" _and_
> > an "x-office-calendar" -- and why on earth are they different?)
>
>
> Hi Nate.
>
> The tango base theme does not aim to ship all possible icons you may
> find useful on a mobile device. Specifically we decided that
> application icons should ship with applications themselves. We want to
> avoid an unmaintanable huge theme that tries to ship every icon on
> earth. We've been there with gnome icon theme before.


I understand that perfectly.  Nevertheless, the /apps/ directory in the
heirarchy isn't empty, is it?  And I don't think anyone can justifiably
claim that addressbooks are mobile-device only.

If you didn't know from the preceding comments that the person asking the
question was putting together a theme for a mobile platform, you wouldn't
get it from the question itself.

Office-calendar is not part of the naming spec anymore and remained in
> the icon theme my mistake.


OK; cool.  I appreciate the straight answer.

We are of course open to suggestions for additions to the base theme,
> but keep in mind we want to keep this theme as minimal as possible. If
> you feel like you're needing some mobile productivity icons, feel free
> to set up a page similar to the Art Libre list [1] and motivate the
> artists to draw some artwork. Tuomas Kuosmanen will most likely be a
> person to talk to as he's been one of the founders of the Tango project
> and now works for Nokia.


I shall absolutely keep you posted.  I'm not clear on whether there is
demand for this on an ongoing basis or not.  Based on what I have seen so
far, though, what is likely to be more valuable to the artists is feedback
on how usable the icons are in the small screen size format.  There are a
lot of icons that at 22x22 meld into "white rounded-rectangles" -- that
could be a usability issue for the small size icons on every platform.

Thanks,
Nate

cheers
>
> [1] - http://tango-project.org/ArtLibreSet
> --
> Jakub Steiner <jimmac at novell.com>
>
>


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