[Tango-artists] PackageKit and the icon-naming-spec

Ulisse Perusin ulisail at yahoo.it
Fri Sep 7 07:14:57 PDT 2007


I guess someone here will tell you that you don't need all that icons :)

Personally I hope you already have removed that redundant "[X] close"
button from the toolbar...


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm developing PackageKit and gnome-packagekit and some people have
> noticed that I'm using icons from the icon naming spec that I shouldn't,
> e.g. using mail-send-receive when downloading a package. Before I do the
> first release, I'm asking you guys for help with the icons to fix this
> the proper way. Some icons are needed for the taskbar, some are just
> used in the monitoring UI, so I actually do need all these icons...
> 
> I've got a list below of what actions I need to do and what I think I 
> should be using
> 
> Installing packages                     ??
> Downloading packages                    ??
> Updating packages                       ??
> Removing packages                       ??
> Performing a query                      system-search?
> Updating system                         ??
> Setting up the transaction              emblem-system?
> Refreshing cache                        view-refresh?
> System up to date (no updates)          ??
> Low importance updates available        ??
> Normal updates available                software-update-available
> Security updates available              software-update-urgent
> Add/Remove packages                     system-installer
> System update viewer                    system-software-update
> 
> I think some of this belongs in the icon naming spec as this will apply
> to the other package management systems like rhn, pup, pirut, zypp, rcd
> and that sort of thing. I'll also need people to design some really good
> icons for the ? and ?? entries, which will be rewarded by beers at the
> next GUADEC. The license also needs to be GPL2.
> 
> Thanks guys,
> 
> Richard.
> 
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