On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org wrote:
I sent this to the wrong desktop list earlier today [1]. Trying again....
[1] h ttps://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2015-April/msg00028.html
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Catanzaro mcatanzaro@gnome.org To: desktop-devel-list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Cc: Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 09:48:10 -0500 Subject: Symbolic icons in app menu -- not ready for F22 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.
As long as "those apps" is only a subset of available apps the inconsistency will remain. So while this would improve it it won't really "fix" it.