[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] gtk+ builtin stock icons removed

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

2005/10/27, Tommi Komulainen <tommi.komulainen at nokia.com>:
> The only places where things might get broken is when the builtin stock
> icon is the only piece of information provided to the user such as in
> the toolbar in an appview - gtk+ toolbars should always have icon+text
> information provided as per HIG and a11y guidelines. Icons should be
> used only in addition to other forms of providing information, relying
> on icons only (in gtk+) is questionable already.

Yeah, but makes sense in a space-constrained environment, specially if
you can use the same icons that everybody else uses so users are
familiar with their meaning.

> So only a very small part of applications should be impacted.

Disagree. Stock icons have more uses than just as a part of a stock
item. But if you assert that icons are not important, I guess it
doesn't matter...

> And in case there are any misconceptions about priorities, product comes
> first, Hildonized apps second, running unmodified gtk+ apps is plus.

Unfortunately that means that those without a graphics department at
their disposal or graphical skills are left without icons (or worse,
have to make bad icons themselves).

> Removing stock icons has only positive impact on the product and only a
> minor negative impact on a subset of other apps.

It's positive only because the product uses it's own icons and will
have negative impact on the open source software created for it. But I
guess that is fair enough to be in the bottom of the priority list :(

> And the effort spent was around half an hour to implement. From where I'm
> sitting that's quite cost-efficient.

It is cost-efficient *because* you are sitting where you are sitting.

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