[Kde-hardware-devel] [kde-artists] Renaming Oxygen's devices/ icons

[Kevin Ottens]

Le mercredi 04 juillet 2007, Jakob Petsovits a écrit :
> point and have a look at the more important other issue:
> > > Also, this thread came to the conclusion that for the user, knowing the
> > > concrete disc format matters less than knowing what's on the disc.
> >
> > Yes, that makes some sense.  But, are users really going to be able to
> > tell that from the icon?  Wouldn't it be better to use a badge to
> > indicate that it was an audio disk or a video disk?
>
> A badge, like one from the "emblems" folder?
> Actually, I like that idea a lot. Overlaying a (for example)
> media-optical-dvd icon with an emblem-video icon would have a few important
> benefits:
>
> - Makes it possible to indicate both disc type and disc content without
>   having x^y icons for all of them,
> - Eliminates the difficult choice between the type and content name
> prefixes, and their order, and
> - Enables us to do the same thing that the Gnomies do, without needing to
>   start a discussion where it would be seriously hard to convince the
>   specification maintainers, as the existence of
> media-optical-{audio,video} is also predefining how the user interface
> should look like.
>
> So, +1 for having media-optical, media-optical-dvd, media-optical-hddvd
> etc. PLUS emblem-audio and emblem-video. Kévin, what do you think about
> this?

emblem-audio and emblem-video is fine for me, that means we have to make sure 
we support to have several emblems in KIcon though. And the current state of 
KIcon is depressing to be honest, the overlaying still depending on an enum 
in K3Icon... highly obsolete and not extensible.
/me looks at Aaron :-)

I'm still reluctant to go with the media-optical-(dvd|hddvd|...) ones, look 
below for one of the reasons.

> media-optical-recordable can't reasonably be represented with an emblem,
> so I think it should still be kept as is.

Yeah, that's the main point for not doing media-optical-(dvd|hddvd|...). 
You're suddenly screwed for the recordable version. So I'd keep only 
media-optical and media-optical-recordable.

Regards.
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