On 1/22/06, Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > a suggestion for the Flash media group how about a redish oval with a white circle with a lightning bolt (add the letters for the format for subtypes)
-- Robert L Martin _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
