Request for new standard icon, "window"

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 06.03.09 13:56, Rodney Dawes (dobey.pwns at gmail.com) wrote:

Rodney,

any chance you could comment on the icon names I requested a week ago?

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2009-March/010267.html

Thanks,
        Lennart

> 
> What Context[1] do you see this fitting into, if it does go into the
> naming spec? I don't feel it really fits in any of the existing ones,
> so we would probably need a new context for these sorts of things too,
> no?
> 
> -- Rodney
> 
> [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/latest/ar01s02.html
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 13:30 -0500, Thomas Thurman wrote:
> > The Metacity window manager used to use a fallback icon taken from its
> > own theme if a window did not provide an icon of its own.
> > 
> > It has been suggested that we should instead use an icon from the icon
> > theme.  I believe this is a sensible suggestion, but there is
> > currently no suitable icon.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to have a standard icon added called "window"
> > which represented a generic window?
> > 
> > Thomas
> 
> 
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Lennart

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