2007/5/17, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Le jeudi 17 mai 2007, à 17:20 +0200, Xavier Claessens a écrit : > Hi, > > With all new IM clients currently under development I think we should > think about some GNOME desktop integration. > > Here I suggest to move protocols and status icons to gnome-icon-theme, > like that we can reuse them in all GNOME applications. Actually > applications like pidgin, gossip, empathy, landel and event xchat-gnome, > all have almost the same icon set. > > I think we should build a GNOME icon theme for all IM related icons, like > new-message, status-available, etc... We already have smileys and some > protocols but I think they should be updated with a more tango-like > design. > > The benefit of moving icons to gnome-icon-theme: > 1) avoid data duplication, projects copies icons, for example empathy's > icons are stolen from landel or gossip > 2) avoid work duplication for the tango-team, for example the new-message > icon for xchat-gnome is almost the same for pidgin and for gossip, but > AFAIK it has been done from scratch for each project > 3) users can change icons by simply install a new icon theme, actually > they have to change the whole client... or some clients like pidgin have > their own icon theme manager which is a dup of gnome (freedesktop?) icon > theme system. > > I would like hear the opinion of developers from all IM clients and tango > artists to see if we can create a common icon set. It probably makes sense to get the icon names in the icon naming specification too.
Ok so how can we add them in the icon naming spec ? Who should I contact ? Xavier.
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