[Tango-artists] Re: Tango icons for glChess & Gnome-Sudoku?

Hylke Bons h.bons at student.rug.nl
Mon Nov 13 08:51:23 PST 2006


Good idea dobey.

Hylke Bons

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 10:43 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> The icons should be distinct. The metaphors we have been using in
> tango-icon-theme, are that the app icon metaphor is based on the
> tool one might use to create the file, and the MIME icon is based
> on what the file content is. For the MIME type icon, I might suggest
> using the chess board, but with a chess timer clock on top, instead
> of a pawn or other chess piece. This then shows that it's a "snapshot"
> of a chess game.
> 
> -- dobey
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:27 +1100, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > With this in mind should there be two icons, one for the MIME type and
> > one for the glChess application? At the moment I would expect to use
> > the same icon for both...
> 
> 
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