{"id":47,"date":"2007-05-26T18:27:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T17:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-08-07T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T13:56:35","slug":"freshening-gnome-desktop-icons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/?p=47","title":{"rendered":"Freshening gnome-desktop icons"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width='100%'>\n<tr>\n<td>\nMost of <a href='http:\/\/ftp.acc.umu.se\/pub\/GNOME\/sources\/gnome-desktop\/' target='_new'>gnome-desktop<\/a> icons need to be freshened a bit. IIRC, I have seen this great artwork (<a href='http:\/\/tigert.com\/' target='_new'>Tigert&#8217;s<\/a>) since &#8230; well pre-1.0 versions of GNOME. It appears that a bug has already been filed (<a href='http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=343570' target='_new'>#343570<\/a>) in GNOME&#8217;s <a href='http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org' target='_new'>Bugzilla<\/a>.\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align='right'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/v2\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/tango.png' alt='tango.png' \/><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>\nMost of these icons should probably be &#8220;killed&#8221;. I figured that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'><a href='http:\/\/ftp.acc.umu.se\/pub\/GNOME\/sources\/control-center\/' target='_new'>Control Center<\/a> icons can be removed without any doubt: gnome-ccdialog, gnome-ccmime, gnome-ccperiph, gnome-ccscreensaver, &#8230;<\/li>\n<li  style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>Most of Applications icons are included in <a href='http:\/\/ftp.acc.umu.se\/pub\/GNOME\/sources\/gnome-icon-theme\/' target='_new'>gnome-icon-theme<\/a> or other packages. They should then be removed: gnome-gimp, gnome-gnomoku, gnome-gmush, gnome-term,  &#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li  style='list-style: square inside;  color:#aaaaaa;'>The same should be done for mime-type icons or folders: gnome-file-c, gnome-file-h, gnome-folder, &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI tried to freshen up the remaining icons and ended with these (preview):<\/p>\n<div align='center'>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/tango-gnome-desktop.png' alt='after' \/><\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align='center'><img src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/tango-gnome-desktop-before.png' alt='before' \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>\nAfter<\/td>\n<td>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align='center'>\nBefore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tarball is available here: <img  align='absmiddle' src='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/v2\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/package-x-generic.png' alt='archive' \/>&nbsp;<a style='font-size:8pt'  href='http:\/\/quantum-bits.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/gnome-destkop-tango.tar.gz' title='gnome-destkop-tango.tar.gz'>gnome-destkop-tango.tar.gz<\/a>, or as an attachement to <a href='http:\/\/bugzilla.gnome.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=343570' target='_new'>#343570<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Edited June 17th<\/u>: these were committed to SVN trunk. Thanks <a href='http:\/\/www.vuntz.net\/journal\/' target='_new'>Vincent<\/a> !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of gnome-desktop icons need to be freshened a bit. IIRC, I have seen this great artwork (Tigert&#8217;s) since &#8230; well pre-1.0 versions of GNOME. It appears that a bug &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[10,5,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quantum-bits.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}