> > Have you a link for me? I have found the artwork links on the wiki to be > > pretty confusing. Then again, I've been distracted. > Well there aren't any ;). Ah right, I walked into that one :)
> Currently, if you wish to develop in the "Human" style, you will need to > use your package manager to leech the Human icon set and dowse into the > 'scalable' variety. I apt-cache searched around all I can find are icons for 'tangerine' and 'tango'. I'm sure I'm being thick. > >> At the very least, we need to bind icons to locales and offer fallbacks > >> as per the standard icon scheming in GNOME. > I just had a rather long discussion with Matt Zimmerman on this > (Canonical and Ubuntu's CTO for those that don't know who he is) and the > net answer was "not in Ubuntu's scope". In other words, this becomes an > 'upstream' issue -- either GNOME or KDE. In that, the issue is complex. If there's one thing I have learned in Linuxland it's that things are always much more complex than I think they are. I will have to assume that when the horse's mouth speak it speak sooth. You are waiting for the but ... I can tell :) But -- In my really stupid way, my inner conversation goes like this: 1. Any graphic we see on the screen comes from a file on the disk. 2. My experience has been of two kinds of files: resource files (indexed pics in them) and plain old image files. 3. Surely I could identify the list of path and filenames of each of those files. 4. If so, I could then substitute new files (of the same name and path) that contain different images? 5. Heck yeah, I say to me, why not make all of those files (or the directories containing them) soft links? 6. Now I'm cooking (virtually) and I see a python script starting-up before Xorg and it consults the locale and then lays down a bunch of soft-links to known locations where the locale-specific image files await. 7. X starts and Gnome/KDE/Xubuntu go about their time-honoured business of fetching images from files, exactly as planned. Of course, if point 2 and 3 are not that simple then things go bad. If icons are stored *within* some apps (like they were in Windows apps, still are?) ... And if point 6 can't run as root... And there's security to worry about... etc ... then there is no simple solution. >delines/index.html ), I don't know if voting would result in the optimal > version of > 'expressive and communicative' design. It would very likely be a > combination of preference with design vision. It _would_ be democratic, > but we can all imagine what a fully 'democratic' elephant might look > like ;) I bow to anyone displaying sense by experience. I would hope that such a voting system may *at least* float the most communicative icons/images to the surface, but I just don't know what will happen. Still, no-one but a local of the native language in their locale will know best what image represents "New File". Unless we ask them, we cannot know. I guess. > The best course of action right now appears to be: For private reasons I am not available for long enough to be credible here; right now all I can do is watch and contribute the odd thing here and there. /d -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
