Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

[Andreas Nilsson]

Máirín Duffy wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I installed Fedora 8 Test 2 last night, and after updating it I took 
> some time tonight to take screenshots of the application menus to show 
> what the icons look like in a default installation of Fedora (well 
> except I installed Inkscape, sorry, I couldn't live without it for 
> that long. :) )
>
> Overall, the icon coverage looks pretty good and the icons for the 
> most part are pretty consistent, but there are still some icons that 
> have problems. They either look fuzzy, or do not fit the icon theme / 
> don't look polished. Some of this may be due to technical or packaging 
> issues I think? I noticed the puplet icon gets less blurry if you 
> increase the size of GNOME panel. But some issues may be due to there 
> not being an appropriate icon available or the upstream icon not being 
> that great.
>
> Is it worth it to take some time to make sure the initial set of icons 
> in the menus for a default Fedora install all have perfect and 
> consistent coverage? Is it possible to address all these issues?
>
> Here's my 'hit list' of icons to address with screenshots, if so:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Artwork/F8Themes/IconReview_Fedora_8_Icon_Review 
>
Totally! Always worth it as it makes stuff look sharp and professional.

graphics:
gthumb - Fixed in trunk already
fedora icon - here [1]

internet:
blog entry poster: what app is this?
contacts: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467115
e-mail: also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467115
ekiga: I know there is a sharp icon around, but I can't find the bug #. 
I'll look into this.
x-chat: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=375579

office:
abiword: I've submitted a fix [2], but the abiword developers haven't 
had time to put it in yet.
gnumeric: vdepizzol did this and sent it off to the maintainer, weird 
that's it's not upsteam yet. [3]
tasks: also http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467115

Need to run off now, I'll cover the rest later.
- Andreas

1. http://www.stephenbrandt.com/tango-icons/fedora/
2. http://andreasn.se/diverse/temp/abiword.tar.gz
3. http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Fridays#Friday_November_3rd