I'm disappointed in this change. I'm not sure why it was even made in the first place. Why do Alt-Tab, Dash, and the launcher get the full-color app icon, but the window menu gets a symbolic icon?
For me, one of the biggest things GNOME did was establish a consistent brand for an app *everywhere* an app is, no matter where it is in the OS. I'm unhappy with this change because it's actually impairing my recognition -- in some places, I see a full-color terminal icon, and in others, I see a symbolic icon, and it's thrown me a few times to figure out if I'm running the same application or not. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > 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. > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/HighContrastAppIcons > [2] > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=a0df7aa2b800a2f4a71bcf208e9480d7f21500e0 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
