Hi, On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Côme BERNIGAUD <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, please step forward and update this spec which has not been updated > since 2006 and lacks a lot of stuff. > I had great troubles with icons not having consistent names across themes > (just look at Tango and Oxygen, both does not use the same conventions for > things which are not defined in icon-naming-spec). > > I think you don’t need the device- prefix as these icons will be in the > devices category. > > You may wanna use the fallback system and rename headset to > headphone-headset, falling back to headphone if this one is not there. > From icon-naming-spec: «The specific media type icons should be named in the > form, <primary function>-<specific format>. Some examples are > “media-optical”, “media-optical-bd” and “media-optical-dvd”.», so I guess > it’s a good thing to reuse this dash generic prefix system.
That's for media types though. According to the spec the fallback for devices is understood as <primary function>-<manufacturer>-<model>. Falling back on "headphone" if "headphone-headset" is not present sounds fine, but then needs to be specified as such imho. "drive-removable-media" which is also in the spec would make no sense as "drive-removable"; same goes for "multimedia-player". > This is also why you should avoid using dashes in "ebook-reader" and > "fax-machine", unless you expect more generic ones called fax and ebook. > Maybe some devices should have a common prefix, I’m thinking for instance of > modem and router. Fax may also be printer-fax, not sure. Should tablet be > pda-tablet or phone-tablet? multimedia-tablet? computer-tablet might be the > more accurate. > headphone and headset should definitely have an audio- prefix. > laptop should be computer-laptop. In a more generic way: Agreed on computer-laptop. Also agreed on audio-headphones and audio-headphones-headset. Maybe media-flash-sdcard instead of media-sdcard. I suppose it would make sense to move things to a mobile- prefix if you go with that. mobile-pda (move it there), mobile-phone (does not replace phone, however would fall back to it I suppose), mobile-phone-smartphone, mobile-tablet, mobile-tablet-reader (? instead of ebook-reader). We could also move multimedia-player to mobile-multimedia-player. I didn't want to nab the name "fax" as that is what you would call the document itself. If a single-word logic must be retained, we could go with one of "phone-fax", "telecopier" or "phone-telecopier". Anyway, for some reason I don't think there'll be too many actual users of that icon :) We could move router to network-router. modem can stay where it's at. Forgot two in my original email: drive-harddisk-ssd, for SSDs (falls back to drive-harddisk) and media-sim for SIM cards (need it on phones and tablets). > > Looking forward to reading your patch. > > Côme > > > On 2014-04-14 12:49, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> >> Hi list >> >> I'm in need of some extra devices which are not currently specified in >> the icon-naming-spec. Namely: >> >> devices: >> tablet: A portable large-screen device with touch capabilities (eg >> ipad; NOT an input device, different from input-tablet) >> laptop: A "computer" device recognized as a laptop. >> ebook-reader: A portable large-screen device meant primarily for >> reading (eg. kindle) >> gps: A GPS device >> fax-machine: Yes, I'm seriously requesting that. :) >> router: We have "modem", makes sense to add "router" as well (I'm not >> overly attached to it, can do without) >> headphones: A headphone device >> headset: A headphone device *with* microphone (not overly attached either) >> >> NOTE: Maybe we should move (some of?) these to "device-"? I think it's >> fine as it is but "router" and "tablet" are pretty generic names. >> >> media: >> media-sdcard: A SD card. I'd like to split this from media-flash as >> it's not currently possible to differenciate between "generic USB >> stick" and "generic SD card". >> >> input: >> input-fingerprint-reader: A fingerprint reader device. >> >> >> I can and will be using my own icon for all these for the time being, >> however I figure we stand to gain by adding these to the >> icon-naming-spec. If I can get some positive reactions for at least >> some of these, I'll file a bug and send a patch. >> >> J. Leclanche >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
