Fedora 8 Test 2 Icon Review

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Sep 17 16:46:39 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 00:40 -0400, 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
> 

Can you add

gtk-icon-sizes="panel-foobar=24,24:panel-menu=24,24"

to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and try again ? Does it look better ?




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