[Tango-artists] Icon mapping patch

[Rodney Dawes]

On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:17 +0100, Eskil Bylund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here's a patch that adds mappings for some stock icons and some icons
> used by Fedora.

Thanks. I've committed most of the changes...

I linked stock_calendar to the MIME type icon, rather than the app icon.

The locked/unlocked icons were inappropriately named, and the metaphors
where they are actually used, don't really fit well with a lock. They
are used to represent an encrypted connection, rather than something
that is requesting a "key" for access to something, which is a metaphor
that we feel would fit the icons better.

I also left the stock_attach link out, as the "mail-attachment" is meant
to be a status icon in the spec, to show that mail has attachments,
rather than an icon for the "attach an item" action.

I've also not linked the system-config-* icons to the device icons, as
you had in the patch. We generally want a clear separation of
applications and devices, and using device icons as app icons would
break that quite a bit. And I am unclear on the gnome-default-printer
icon. Where is it used, and how?

Also left out, were most of the system-config-* links that you added. I
don't think we should be using the same icon for regular preferences as
well as system preferences, if we are going to have a separation at all.
It would just add confusion I think. Although, it would be nice to just
get rid of that separation at some point, and just put everything in the
same sort of UI.

> By the way, shouldn't there be a mail-send, and maybe a mail-receive
> icon in the Icon Naming Spec.?

I am not sure. PIM icons in general probably need some discussion before
actually being considered suitable in terms of the specification. Most
all of the mail-* icons, I put in to fill out the spec a bit from the
start, in hope that people would start discussing them.

-- dobey