On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I sent this to the wrong desktop list earlier today [1]. Trying > again.... > > [1] h > ttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-April/msg00028.html > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> > To: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:48:10 -0500 > Subject: Symbolic icons in app menu -- not ready for F22 > Hi, > > Currently, half our apps use nice symbolic icons in the app menu, > while the other half use shrunken hicolor icons. This inconsistency is > a poor user experience, and not something that should happen in a > serious operating system. Progress is being tracked at [1] under the > column 3.16 status, but it's clearly not going to be finished prior to > the F22. > > I don't think this change is ready for Fedora (or other distros -- the > change should have been delayed until GNOME 3.18). We should wait > until at least all the apps we install by default have symbolic icons > before making this switch. Ideally [1] would be completed as well. I > propose either: > > a) Reverting the change to use symbolic icons for the app menu in a > downstream patch. This would involve reverting upstream commit [2]. > > b) Integrating symbolic icons for those apps in downstream patches. > This would be more work, but at least patches already exist (thanks > Jakub!) for nearly all GNOME apps, even though a few have been > rejected upstream. We would still need icons for devassistant and > setroubleshoot, though. As long as "those apps" is only a subset of available apps the inconsistency will remain. So while this would improve it it won't really "fix" it. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
