Purpose: gnome-icon-theme-symbolic is to extend the base icon theme for special UI contexts. This would include OSD (volume, brightness...), panel system/notification area and others.
Icons follow the naming specification[1], but have a -symbolic suffix, so only applications specifically looking up these symbolic icons will render them. If a -symbolic icon is missing, the app will fall back to the regular name. Unlike gnome-icon-theme itself the icons do not follow the Tango style guidelines, but instead come as simplistic flat stencils [2][3]. Target: Desktop Dependencies: gnome-icon-theme, icon-naming-utils Resource usage: tarballs: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic source control: git://git.gnome.org/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org, gnome-icon-theme product Adoption: GNOME3 and gnome-shell specifically will need the special status icons rendered in the simple stencil style. GNOME-ness, community: #gnome-art community works closely to develop the theme, support for it is being worked on in network manager, totem, gnome-shell and other places. Other notes: This is not a complete icon theme and doesn't work standalone. It is an extension to the base gnome-icon-theme and relies on its index.theme. The icons are to be recolored based on the widget they are being drawn in (and change color when selected just like the text in the same widget context. The widget theme bridge is yet to be figured out.) [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html [2] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons [3] http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=946 -- Jakub Steiner <[email protected]> http://jimmac.musichall.cz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
