Jakub Steiner wrote: > On Sat, 2006-08-05 at 02:19 -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > > >> If making things work is hard on developers (and by >> developers, I mean everybody who makes our software >> kick ass, including artists), then by all means we >> should look at how to make developers' jobs easier. >> After all, removing barriers helps us make better >> software. But doing so by cutting features doesn't >> help us make *better* software. It just helps us >> make less-useful software more easily. >> >> Sorry if this came off rantish or unappreciative. >> > > Focusing on having an icon for every single mime type in the world is > not a feature. It leads to numerous problems. We tried to 'keep up' with > these needs in the past, and contrary to what some people think here, we > failed. We managed to make the icon theme unthemable, failed to provide > all the necessary sizes so the icons looked like a fuzzy blob in many > places. > >
This doesn't change the fact that you are unilaterally removing a feature that many people find useful to get their work done: I find very valuable being able to distinguish at a glance different kind of files in a project (c, python and Makefiles for instance). Other people voiced similar concerns in their field of competence (different kind of graphics formats, different audio formats etc) I love the classy look of our desktop, but if I have to chose between 'fuzzy blob that helps me getting work done' and 'consistent look, which however slows me down', I choose the former. Also, end-users are not the only consumers of the icons, the icon theme is a component of our stack as any other library and application developers are faced with things changing under their feets: for instance gedit shows a icon of the file, but now this icon is always the same making our work useless and our users unhappy, see for instance https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gedit/+bug/30704 ciao Paolo _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
