Re: More on icons for packages

2005-02-01 Thread tim hall
Thanks for forwarding this Free. Last Wednesday 26 January 2005 07:56, Free Ekanayaka was like: |--== Paul Brossier writes: PB On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: With regards to GNOME panel icons. The add to panel option now no longer offers launcher from menu so

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: Thus it might be even better to define a policy the following way: 1. Put all XPMs for the use in Debian-Menu into /usr/share/menu/pixmaps 2. Put all PNGs (and others) into /usr/share/pixmaps if they are intended for applications

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-27 Thread Tim Dijkstra
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:18:39 -0500 Dale C. Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus it might be even better to define a policy the following way: 1. Put all XPMs for the use in Debian-Menu into /usr/share/menu/pixmaps 2. Put all PNGs (and others) into /usr/share/pixmaps if

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-27 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:52:48 +0100 Tim Dijkstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 20:18:39 -0500 Dale C. Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus it might be even better to define a policy the following way: 1. Put all XPMs for the use in Debian-Menu into

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-27 Thread James A. Treacy
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:52:48AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote: I think the point is we don't want to be stuck we xpm till eternity. Especially because we have window/desktop managers that support better formats like png or svg for example and programs supplying them. svg icons are already a

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Free Ekanayaka
|--== Paul Brossier writes: PB On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: With regards to GNOME panel icons. The add to panel option now no longer offers launcher from menu so now with the custom launcer you have to hunt for your icon. PB well yes, here it does at

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 03:20:34 +, Paul Brossier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: With regards to GNOME panel icons. The add to panel option now no longer offers launcher from menu so now with the custom launcer you have to hunt for your

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Paul Brossier
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 09:41 -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: The icon I would prefer to use on the desktop/panel is 114x154 pixels and gives a smoother lookeing icon. I'll have to experiment with violating the menu spec and seeing how it works... i would say that could sound too large for an

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-26 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:15:38 +0100 (CET) Andreas Tille [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: It might be better to reserve /usr/share/pixmaps specifically for menu icons in xpm format and create /usr/share/icons for png gif and jpeg icon images. Why not

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-25 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
Thank you for documenting my tour of the documents ;-) While it looks like my original posting was a complaint about how hard it was to find anythin on icons, my larger point was that there is only information on icons in the menu documentation and it is specific to the menu system, but icons are

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-25 Thread Paul Brossier
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 19:35 -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: With regards to GNOME panel icons. The add to panel option now no longer offers launcher from menu so now with the custom launcer you have to hunt for your icon. well yes, here it does at least. also you can drag and drop it from your

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-25 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: It might be better to reserve /usr/share/pixmaps specifically for menu icons in xpm format and create /usr/share/icons for png gif and jpeg icon images. Why not putting all icons (xpm, png, ...) into /usr/share/pixmaps and just use the XPMs for menu and

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 19:35:42 -0500, Dale C Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This document is only indirectly referenced in the policy manual, so it isn't clear how much force it has. (it could be taken as the mearest suggestion by the menu package maintainer) The Debian technical

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-23 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:35:42PM -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: Well, I finally found some documentation on icons in menu specifications. What it says is pretty specific and goes against what I found when I looked at actual packages. 1. the documentation says all icons go into

Re: More on icons for packages

2005-01-23 Thread Dale C. Scheetz
I understand your point about this document only applying to menus. My point was that this is the only documentation I can find on icons, and gnome has changed how it mounts programs on panels so I'm still running on empty as far as directions on proper behavior. Many of the icons that gnome