On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 07:35:42PM -0500, Dale C. Scheetz wrote: > Well, I finally found some documentation on icons in menu > specifications. What it says is pretty specific and goes against what I > found when I looked at actual packages. > > 1. the documentation says all icons go into /usr/share/pixmaps and > > 2. all menu icons should be 32x32 pixels and be in xpm format.
3 points: Your quote is an extract from the Debian menu manual <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/> or <file:///usr/share/doc/menu/html/index.html> 1) this is only for icons used in menu file for the Debian menu systems. Icons used by window managers and files managers are a completly different business. 2) It says _at most_ 32x32 pixels. > But, when I looked at several packages, many put their icons in > /usr/share/package-name/icons/ and very few actually use 32x32 for their > size even when they are placed in /usr/share/pixmaps/. > > This document is only indirectly referenced in the policy manual, so it > isn't clear how much force it has. (it could be taken as the mearest > suggestion by the menu package maintainer) > > /usr/share/pixmaps has lots of png files and many images are larger than > 32x32. > > Are these issues that should be resolved with bug reports? At least, they are flagged as bugs by lintian: <http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tmenu-icon-too-big.html> <http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tmenu-icon-not-in-xpm-format.html> I try to get as much menu related bugs as I can, but I don't get much support. > With regards to GNOME panel icons. The "add to panel" option now no > longer offers "launcher from menu" so now with the "custom launcer" you > have to hunt for your icon. The default place to look is > /usr/share/pixmaps, so it would be user helpful to have all icons in > that location instead of requiring a hunt through all the other > possibilities when you don't find the icon you are looking for. > > Personally I like larger than 32x32 icons for the panel because icons > are scaled to fit the panel so fairly large ones give much cleaner > detail when scaled to fit. The menu manual is only relevant for icons part of the window-managers menu, not GNOME panel icons. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
