Advice on desktop icons

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 10 juillet 2006 à 19:51 +0100, Duncan Ferguson a écrit :
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 11:36 -0700, Michael Thomas wrote:
> > Duncan Ferguson wrote:
> > > What is the best way to include icons within an rpm, and what sizes of
> > > icons should be used (i have seen mention of 16x16, 24x24 and 48x48, but
> > > how should they be named/installed within the rpm)?
> > 
> > I usually use 32x32 or 48x48 icons, but it's really your choice.
> 
> So I only really need one icon of a relevant size for the rpm (which I
> can choose arbitrarily), not a selection.  That makes life easier, but I
> am surprised there isn't a more standardised approach across all rpm's
> for a number of icons of required sizes.

As
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
specifies

"Minimally you should install a 48x48 icon in the hicolor theme"

This is the *minimal* requirement.

Ideally you should :

* provide the full size range array :
16x16 22x22 24x24  32x32 36x36 48x48 64x64 72x72 96x96 128x128 192x192
(and not auto-scaled stuff - if it's to scale bitmaps in the Gimp
without human intervention gtk can do it without your help thank you
very much. If you provide different sizes that means you actually did
some work so your scaled versions display better than auto-scaled ones)

* and a scalable svg version

* and do it for all the major icon themes (meaning you decline your icon
following the style of every one of these themes

Now considering the ideal case is probably too much work for you, if you
want to do better than a 48x48 icon in the hicolor theme, you should
follow the Tango guidelines (http://tango.freedesktop.org/). They strike
a nice balance between achieved results and work put into the eye-candy.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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