This is a suggestion for a extra specification or an addition to the icon naming specification to cover icons that can not be considered essential.
When discussing the need for an icon for flash media in the new Tango icon set, it was suggested to assemble a list of media icons that would fall outside the core set. Since tango is a part of the new desire to bring order to the chaos that is icon names, it didn't seem right to me to suggest some icons only for the tango-extras set. That would use keep things as organised as previously with names specific to themes/desktop/what-not. Instead, I have another suggestion. As an addition to the standard icon naming specification, we have a second list of icon names. The names in this list are optional, in the sense that applications can not rely on them being present on any system. To have a consistent behaviour, the list also specifies a fallback icon from the base icon set. This fallback is used when the desired icon can not be found. Not sure how this should interact with theme inheritence though. Recursive fallbacks might also be something that could be added. Anyhoo, here's the first couple of entries for such a list. The media-flash icon might be difficult to find a good metaphor for. Provided the other media-flash-icons exist it might even be superfluous. == Drives == Name: Fallback: drive-cdrom-usb drive-cdrom drive-cdrom-ieee1394 drive-cdrom drive-cdrom-scsi drive-cdrom drive-harddisk-usb drive-harddisk drive-harddisk-ieee1394 drive-harddisk drive-harddisk-scsi drive-harddisk drive-removable-media-usb drive-removable-media drive-removable-media-ieee1394 drive-removable-media drive-removable-media-scsi drive-removable-media == Media == Name: Fallback: media-cdrom-cda media-cdrom media-cdrom-cdr media-cdrom media-cdrom-cdrw media-cdrom media-dvd media-cdrom media-dvd-dvda media-cdrom media-dvd-dvdram media-cdrom media-dvd-dvdrplus media-cdrom media-dvd-dvdrminus media-cdrom media-dvd-dvdrwplus media-cdrom media-dvd-dvdrwminus media-cdrom media-bluray media-cdrom media-hddvd media-cdrom media-flash media-removable-media media-flash-compactflash media-removable-media media-flash-smartmedia media-removable-media media-flash-sdmmc media-removable-media media-flash-memorystick media-removable-media media-flash-xd media-removable-media media-smartcard media-removable-media media-zip media-removable-media media-jar media-removable-media Comment, flame and suggest improvements. :) Rgds Pierre _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
