https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1125
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I'm sorry for the many typos, hope the message is clear though.
Daniele
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Current menudrake approach to icon-selection is imho confusing and not
flexible enough.
A very very very humble proposal follows :-) .. someone wishing to have a
discussion on this point?
(Please, note: as a kde user I'll make the point around kde organization; I
suppose gnome's is not that different).
1) Place icons coherently within the filesystem: if I look into /usr/share/icons
there is **anything**, and iti si very confusing indeed (and there is
/usr/share/pixmaps too!).
I'd love mandrake to develop an its own iconset, organized like kde ones, and
to put this under, say, /usr/share/icons/Mandrake. Of course, they do not need
to have a whole iconset, just the icons they need for theyr apps and menu
sections).
This would clean most of /usr/share/icons.
Then, packager should provide 16x16,22x22...128x128 icons for their
packages and have them installed in the proper folder
(/usr/share/icons/Mandrake/Apps/{16x16,22x22...128x128}).
2) Actually there's a menu that lets you select in which category to search for an
icon: actually the choices are:
- kde
- kde2 applications icons (!!???)
- gnome
- kde large
What the hell is this? I really can't find a point in it.
Wouldn't it be better just three choices:
- Mandrake
- Kde
- Gnome
The first would list all icons (of the appropriate size) within the
/usr/share/icons/Mandrake/$SIZEx$SIZE/Apps, the second those in
/usr/share/icons/$ACTUAL_KDE_ICON_THEME/$SIZEx$SIZE/Apps ant the
latter thos in the appropriate gnome directory (whatever it is)
3) Add a "Browse" button, to let the user select any icon within the filesystem
4) Add a "search" widget, that would perform a search within Mandrake,Kde
and Gnome icons and display a window that would let the user select those
icons whose name (and eventually properties, such as dimensions) matches
the pattern given in the search dialog; so, say I could search for "net" and have
a window listing icons such as "gnome-nework.png", "section-network.png"...
Anybody agrres with me? :=)
Daniele
