[Icon-Naming-Spec] New icons proposal

Stephan Arts stephan at xfce.org
Mon Apr 21 01:21:20 PDT 2008


On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Friday, 18. April 2008, Richard Hughes wrote:
>  > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:34 +0200, Stephan Arts wrote:
>  > > - system-shutdown
>  > > - system-reboot
>  > > - system-hibernate
>  >
>  > and system-suspend.
>
>  For KDE, we've used system-suspend and system-suspend-hibernate, so that the
>  latter can fall back to the former if the theme doesn't have both. (Because
>  essentially they're both "go to sleep" icons.)
>  I would love to see this scheme to be adopted, as I find it to be a nice
>  mixture between flexibility and not requiring too much from 3rd party theme
>  creators.
>
>  Also, we used system-restart instead of system-reboot, but that's more likely
>  just a matter of taste and a question of "who will need to adapt their icon
>  sets".
>
>
>  > There's some tango icons for suspend and hibernate in the
>  > gnome-power-manager package if anyone is interested. I would love these
>  > to go upstream tho, as we are also using custom icons in the gnome
>  > logout UI too.
>
>  Seconded. With all three of XFCE, GNOME and KDE using those icons, we should
>  really get them into the standard.

system-suspend and system-suspend-hibernate seems a better approach indeed.

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Regards,
Stephan


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