Re: Notification Area Icons

I'm completely agree with you Mikkel.

El 29/11/2007, a las 23:20, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen escribió:

On 29/11/2007, Matthew Nicholson <sjoeboo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

While most of the icons show in this thread are indeed nice icons, I
think having some separate package/effort of the notification area icons
is very counter to the "normal" Gnome behavior. Normally, the icons in
the notification area are changed by a). the icons theme currently
applied (nm-applet) or b). the application itself (pidgin). Having some
separate icon set would break this. What about applications we don't
plan for? The icons would look out of place. What if the icon theme is
changed? Would the notification area icons remain the same, or would
they use the new theme?

We can't just give up because we cannot control all 3rd party apps. No matter how hard we try they can always hard code icons and theming and break visual consistency.

I think it is feasible to create enough icons to make the experience smooth for the majority of the users.

People who stray from the path and install 3rd party apps are also likely to value those apps more than the stock ones. After all they took the effort of installing it. That means that more visible (coloured) icons might not be that bad after all.

The primary goal for having monochrome icons is to reduce overall visual clutter. Even though we have one or two 3rd party apps breaking the monochromeness we still have reduced the overall visual clutter compared to the current color-orgy.

Cheers,
Mikkel

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