Additional devices in icon-naming-spec

[Jerome Leclanche]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Côme BERNIGAUD
<come.bernigaud at opensides.be> wrote:
> Yes, please step forward and update this spec which has not been updated
> since 2006 and lacks a lot of stuff.
> I had great troubles with icons not having consistent names across themes
> (just look at Tango and Oxygen, both does not use the same conventions for
> things which are not defined in icon-naming-spec).
>
> I think you don’t need the device- prefix as these icons will be in the
> devices category.
>
> You may wanna use the fallback system and rename headset to
> headphone-headset, falling back to headphone if this one is not there.
> From icon-naming-spec: «The specific media type icons should be named in the
> form, <primary function>-<specific format>. Some examples are
> “media-optical”, “media-optical-bd” and “media-optical-dvd”.», so I guess
> it’s a good thing to reuse this dash generic prefix system.

That's for media types though. According to the spec the fallback for
devices is understood as <primary function>-<manufacturer>-<model>.
Falling back on "headphone" if "headphone-headset" is not present
sounds fine, but then needs to be specified as such imho.
"drive-removable-media" which is also in the spec would make no sense
as "drive-removable"; same goes for "multimedia-player".

> This is also why you should avoid using dashes in "ebook-reader" and
> "fax-machine", unless you expect more generic ones called fax and ebook.
> Maybe some devices should have a common prefix, I’m thinking for instance of
> modem and router. Fax may also be printer-fax, not sure. Should tablet be
> pda-tablet or phone-tablet? multimedia-tablet? computer-tablet might be the
> more accurate.
> headphone and headset should definitely have an audio- prefix.
> laptop should be computer-laptop.

In a more generic way: Agreed on computer-laptop. Also agreed on
audio-headphones and audio-headphones-headset. Maybe
media-flash-sdcard instead of media-sdcard.
I suppose it would make sense to move things to a mobile- prefix if
you go with that. mobile-pda (move it there), mobile-phone (does not
replace phone, however would fall back to it I suppose),
mobile-phone-smartphone, mobile-tablet, mobile-tablet-reader (?
instead of ebook-reader). We could also move multimedia-player to
mobile-multimedia-player.
I didn't want to nab the name "fax" as that is what you would call the
document itself. If a single-word logic must be retained, we could go
with one of "phone-fax", "telecopier" or "phone-telecopier". Anyway,
for some reason I don't think there'll be too many actual users of
that icon :)

We could move router to network-router. modem can stay where it's at.

Forgot two in my original email: drive-harddisk-ssd, for SSDs (falls
back to drive-harddisk) and media-sim for SIM cards (need it on phones
and tablets).

>
> Looking forward to reading your patch.
>
> Côme
>
>
> On 2014-04-14 12:49, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>>
>> Hi list
>>
>> I'm in need of some extra devices which are not currently specified in
>> the icon-naming-spec. Namely:
>>
>> devices:
>> tablet: A portable large-screen device with touch capabilities (eg
>> ipad; NOT an input device, different from input-tablet)
>> laptop: A "computer" device recognized as a laptop.
>> ebook-reader: A portable large-screen device meant primarily for
>> reading (eg. kindle)
>> gps: A GPS device
>> fax-machine: Yes, I'm seriously requesting that. :)
>> router: We have "modem", makes sense to add "router" as well (I'm not
>> overly attached to it, can do without)
>> headphones: A headphone device
>> headset: A headphone device *with* microphone (not overly attached either)
>>
>> NOTE: Maybe we should move (some of?) these to "device-"? I think it's
>> fine as it is but "router" and "tablet" are pretty generic names.
>>
>> media:
>> media-sdcard: A SD card. I'd like to split this from media-flash as
>> it's not currently possible to differenciate between "generic USB
>> stick" and "generic SD card".
>>
>> input:
>> input-fingerprint-reader: A fingerprint reader device.
>>
>>
>> I can and will be using my own icon for all these for the time being,
>> however I figure we stand to gain by adding these to the
>> icon-naming-spec. If I can get some positive reactions for at least
>> some of these, I'll file a bug and send a patch.
>>
>> J. Leclanche
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