Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
Regarding icons using different perspective, it is much worse for any theme especially when new applications do not have icons that follow either guideline (Blender, KOffice, xsane, about-me, gFTP, etc.) .
I'm not quite groking this sentence. But at least for what seems the majority of upstream GNOME apps these days, their icons are based on the gnome-icon-theme/tango standards which are flat or on the table perspectives.
In the case of third party apps like blender, firefox, thunderbird, etc, the majority of these icons tend to again be a flat perspective.
That an icon follows an isometric perspective also doesn't mean it will follow the same isometric perspective as Echo. Echo on my desktop faces away from me. Bluecurve is a bit friendlier because it faces towards me. The two together, while both isometric, do not match well at all wrt perspective.
Again, I believe the isometric perspective, at least for the 22x22 and 24x24 icons of echo has proven to be a very poor choice in terms of cleanness/crispness, clarity, and alignment to the pixel grid, issues of integrating with other icons aside.
~m
On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 15:25 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
Regarding icons using different perspective, it is much worse for any theme especially when new applications do not have icons that follow either guideline (Blender, KOffice, xsane, about-me, gFTP, etc.) .
I'm not quite groking this sentence. But at least for what seems the majority of upstream GNOME apps these days, their icons are based on the gnome-icon-theme/tango standards which are flat or on the table perspectives.
In the case of third party apps like blender, firefox, thunderbird, etc, the majority of these icons tend to again be a flat perspective.
FWIW when I look at my nautilus desktop (with a functional gsf-office-thumbnailer installed from libgsf which may not be the default experience) I end up with a mixture of isometric echo icons for files that cannot be previewed and flat preview icons of ones that can be, e.g. .pdf, .odt, etc. which is somewhat unfortunate. Though that may more long-term suggest a need for a way to (hand-wavingly) consistently propagate a transformation for such previews than an argument against isometric icons.
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