hi, another thing do discuss in Echo Icons Guidelines [1] are the sizes of icons [2] that will be in the package. So I propose three basic sizes and one optional size, following the tango example [3]: 1. Extra Small (16x16) 2. Small a) 22x22 b) 24x24 3. Medium (32x32, optional) 4. Large (48x48) Because of the usage of these sizes, 22x22 variant is a must for all action icons, all applications icons and all categories action (by default they are in buttons and in gnome menus in this size), 24x24 is a must for all action icons (they are usually in gtk toolbars), 16x16 is a must for places icons, status icons, action icons, devices icons and mimetypes icons (these are usually in nautilus and open/save dialogs). The 48x48 variant is a must for everything that could be displayed in nautilus, because it's default rendering size there, so mimetypes, emblems, places, devices, or applications; also some of the icons from other categories sometimes appear in this size, e.g. the shutdown or suspend (in the shutdown/suspend dialogs). The optional, 32x32, size is used in Windows (which is probably not our target desktop) and sometimes it could appear in notification area (if the panel is big enough). They usually look nice if rendered directly from the scalable variant. The scalable icons, IMHO, need to look at 48x48 precisely the same as 48x48 pngs, should be good looking up to 256x256 and down to 24x24 sizes and their default size must be 48x48. They must be available for all icons that has a png version and must not contain the illustrator garbage (layers with display:none and previews, or what the images inside the svgs are). I hope I didn't missed something, here is the assorted list of the must-haves for each category: Actions - 16x16, 22x22, 24x24, (48x48) Animations - all sizes, smaller (<=24x24) more needed Applications - 22x22, 48x48 Categories - 22x22, 48x48 Devices - 16x16, 48x48 Emblems - 48x48 Emotes - 16x16, 24x24 or 22x22 International - these are country flags, so all Mime Types - 16x16, 48x48 Places - 16x16, 48x48 Status - 16x16, 22x22 or 24x24, 48x48 Note 1: Icons that have 22x22 variant can be easily extended - you can make a 24x24 just by adding one pixel to each side of the icon (can be done in gimp, or maybe even more automatically). This should be preferred to not making 24x24 at all. Also, I would highly encourage to make 22x22 versions instead of 24x24 as the 24x24 variants are present only for compatibility reasons, all desktops are switching to 22x22. Note 2: Emblems, as they are now, seem to be too big. I would therefore suggest to make them smaller. The icon size would be same, only the emblem would be half sized, or a slightly bigger, and centred on the canvas. I noticed this approach in bluecurve icons, though the icon (with the canvas) sizes are 36x36 for 48x48 icons there, but noted as 48x48 in index.theme... Thanks for your comments, Martin References: [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MartinSourada/EchoIconThemeGuidelinesDRAFT [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MartinSourada/EchoIconThemeGuidelinesDRAFT#head-a08e7feda9af6ee810eb1cb61245bc39382f0cc0 [3] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines#Sizes
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