On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:47 -0500, Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > Tristan Van Berkom wrote: [...] > I think it is clear that if you use "gtk-foo" icon for "bar" then > you're misusing it. But let's not forget about the reasons for > doing it: there may simply be no other alternative other than no > icon at all. gtk icons set is not exactly rich to cover even simplish > non-stock metaphors, and if a programmer wants to have an > icon for "foobarize" he will use "gtk-jump-to". Yes, bad and all that. > Icon theme maintainers say that's plain wrong and bad for > user and everything, but what can we do?
We can install our own icons for the corner cases that exist only for our applications - and we can lobby for the addition of icons in the theme when they start to become more than a simple corner case. Cheers, -Tristan _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list