Icon Naming Spec: More "Place" icons? Documents, Videos, etc...

Christian Neumair cneumair at gnome.org
Tue Feb 19 11:04:07 PST 2008


The default installation of xdg-user-dirs [1] currently ships the
following special user locations by default:

Desktop, Download, Templates, Publicshare, Documents, Music, Pictures,
Video.

The icon naming spec [2] suggests emblems for most of them:

emblem-desktop
emblem-downloads
emblem-draft [shipped but not specified]
emblem-shared
emblem-documents
emblem-photos

But almost no places context icons are provided:

user-desktop
user-home

Maybe the spec should also include 

user-downloads
user-templates
user-shared
user-documents
user-music
user-pictures
user-photos

I'm not sure whether it is better to use emblems or dedicated icons for
these places, but artists may or may not want to let the directories
have a folder look, so I adding icons adds more flexibility for artists.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs, no spec
available :(
[2]
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html

-- 
Christian Neumair <cneumair at gnome.org>



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