new icons?

[Andreas Nilsson]

Andreas Nilsson wrote:
> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Máirín Duffy 
>> <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>  
>>> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>  > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Nicu Buculei 
>>> <nicu_fedora at nicubunuro> wrote:
>>>  >> Valent Turkovic wrote:
>>>  >>  > http://www.uploadgeek.com/uploads456/0/old_icons.png
>>>  >>  >
>>>  >>  > Hi,
>>>  >>  > I'm looking at gnome menu icons in current rawhide and they look
>>>  >>  > really out of place. If I remember correctly is was agreed 
>>> upon that
>>>  >>  > there will be an update of this icons with some other. Please 
>>> correct
>>>  >>  > me if I'm wrong.
>>>  >>
>>>  >>  The icons in your screenshot look exactly the same as the icons 
>>> in F8.
>>>  >
>>>  > I know that, but they look "old" compared to the rest of the 
>>> artwork.
>>>  > Are you looking to update them?
>>>
>>>  What?
>>>
>>>  ~m
>>>     
>>
>> If you open gnome menu to me icons look like from some old linux
>> desktop, they don't look as polished as other visual elements of
>> fedora desktop. I don't understand what you don't understand here.
>> I'm not an artists but I can give you my honest opnion that they look
>> misplaced and "old" compared to any other icon. If you look at firefox
>> or evolution icons they look much better on fedora desktop that icons
>> for "Accesories", "Education", "Games". Games icon looks really retro,
>> and it that was the intent of the artwork then I wouldn't say
>> anything, but I guess it is not.
>>
>> How long are these icons being used? When was the last update of them?
>> Which year? Which fedora release?
>>
>> English is not my primary language so there statements may look a bit
>> to direct and harsh but this is not my intention and all I would like
>> to start is some constructive discussion.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Valent.
>>   
> Hi Valent!
> These menu icons are about 1 to 1,5 years old (so quite new actually), 
> the latest addition to the set itself was about 5 weeks ago. You can 
> see the details here: 
> http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/gnome-icon-theme/trunk/ (under 
> size/categories)
>
> Fixes for them are more than welcome, just file bugs in bugzilla with 
> attached patches.
> - Andreas
To clarify myself, that doesn't mean we haven't been drawing a single 
pixel in the GNOME Artwork Team the last month. :)
Our recent work have been icons and other graphics for Firefox 3, 
Evolution, Tomboy, Seahorse and Banshee (we fixed rhythmbox already) 
among others.
- Andreas