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

[Jakob Petsovits]

So my initial, more privately woven attempt to get the Oxygen icons to adhere 
better to the Icon Naming Specification [1] didn't quite work out the way I 
had hoped for.

Thus, let's take this thing to the artists mailing list (kde-hardware-devel is 
CC'd so that Kévin can take part) and try to get the icon names in line with 
the spec. With the support of Aaron and Kévin, who graciously provide their 
source code updating skills, it should merely be a question of coordinating 
efforts.

I did a renaming proposal for devices/ (other categories to follow at aKademy 
or sooner), find it attached in text file form.

So, there's two questions:

(a) Are the proposed name changes ok for you? Can they be improved?
    If so, How? ...and once there's a consensus on these questions:
(b) What needs to be done for renaming all of the mentioned icons?
    Who will do what?

Input is highly appreciated. I should have taken this to the list at the time 
I did the original file, but there's still enough time to get this sorted out 
in time for KDE 4.0. Until then, all of the icons should be compatible to the 
specification.


[1]
The freedesktop.org Icon Naming Specification: 
http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
...or the only slightly, but still modified version in fd.o's CVS repository:
http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/icon-theme/default-icon-theme/spec/icon-naming-spec.xml?revision=1.17&view=markup
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jpetso's icon naming suggestions for devices/
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Renaming

 Icon names without trailing stars already exist in the icon naming spec.

 *-mount                 -> svn rm, right now. See below (*) for explanation.
 3floppy-unmount         -> media-floppy
 audio-headset           OK **
 audio-input-line        OK **
 audio-input-microphone  OK
 camera-unmount          -> camera-photo
 cdaudio-unmount         -> media-optical-audio **
 cdwriter-unmount        -> media-optical-recordable **
 cellular-phone-unmount  -> phone
 cpu                     ??
 drive-optical           -> media-optical
 dvd-unmount             -> media-optical-video **
 hdd-external-unmount    -> drive-removable-media
 hdd-unmount             -> drive-harddisk
 hdd-usb-unmount         -> drive-removable-media-usb ***
 ipod-unmount            -> multimedia-player
 joystick                -> input-gaming
 keyboard                -> input-keyboard
 laptop                  -> computer-laptop **
 memory-stick-unmount    -> media-flash
 mouse                   -> input-mouse
 nfs-unmount             -> drive-remote **
 printer                 OK
 projector               -> video-projector **
 scanner                 OK
 screen                  -> video-display
 sd-mmc-unmount          -> media-flash-sd-mmc ***
 smart-media-unmount     -> media-flash-smart-media ***
 system                  -> computer
 tablet                  -> input-tablet
 usbpendrive-unmount     -> media-flash-usb **
 video-television        OK **
 webcam                  -> camera-web

 * The specification's way of doing *-mounted icons would be mount emblems,
   overlaying the standard ones. Kévin and Aaron claim to have a solution
   at hand right now, so let's kill all *-mounted icons right now.
 ** suggesting this for inclusion into the icon naming specification
 *** not in the spec, but let's keep it out of there anyways, it's not really
     suited to be a standard icon


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Icons that are in the spec, but not yet in Oxygen's devices/ (after renaming)
so they need to be added. Descriptions taken from the specification.

 audio-card
   The icon used for the audio rendering device.

 battery
   The icon used for the system battery device.
   (Let's just move actions/battery.svg to devices/.)

 camera-video
   The fallback icon for video cameras

 drive-optical
   The icon used for optical media drives such as CD and DVD.

 media-tape
   The icon used for generic physical tape media.

 modem
   The icon used for modem devices.

 network-wired
   The icon used for wired network connections.

 network-wireless
   The icon used for wireless network connections.

 pda
   This is the fallback icon for Personal Digial Assistant devices. Primary use
   of this icon is for PDA devices connected to the PC. Connection medium is not
   an important aspect of the icon. The metaphor for this fallback icon should
   be a generic PDA device icon.


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Don't know what to do with...

 cpu
   The specification does not contain any low-level processing units, such as
   CPUs or RAM. I can't think of an appropriate "category" name for those.
   The only word that I found which comes close was "internal-*"
   (internal-cpu, internal-memory, ...) but I'm not sure if this consistent
   with the rest of the device section in the spec and extensible enough.
   Input and better ideas appreciated.


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Concerns

 - As the current drive-optical is actually what should be media-optical,
   I'm not sure whether drive-optical should be a copy of that same CD icon or
   rather a drive with a CD in it (the Tango theme has the latter one).

   This is especially difficult as KDE currently displays the icon of the
   medium itself instead of a drive icon. If we go for drives instead of media
   then we need the same amount of drive icons as there are media icons, in
   order to provide a device icon for every possible medium. On the other hand,
   if we keep the media icons as drive representations, the spec'd drive icons
   are not being used as envisioned by the spec. I guess that would be the
   lesser evil though.



Summary of the suggested additions to the icon naming specification

 The ones marked with **, in a shorter list for a better overview. Including a
 suggested short description text like needed for inclusion in the spec. Sounds
 mostly fishy in order to be consistent with the spec's other descriptions.

 audio-headset
   The icon used for handsfree headset devices that combine a pair of
   headphones or earphones with a microphone.

 audio-input-line
   The icon used for audio line input devices.

 media-optical-audio
   The icon used for physical optical media such as CD and DVD containing
   audio content.

 media-optical-video
   The icon used for physical optical media such as CD and DVD containing
   video content.

 media-optical-recordable
   The icon used for recordable physical optical media, such as CD-R and DVD-R.

 media-flash-usb
   The icon used for physical USB flash drive media.

 computer-laptop
   The icon used for a portable computing device as a whole.

 computer-pda
   The icon used for a palm-sized computing device.

 drive-remote
   The icon used for remotely accessed drives, such as NFS or WebDAV mounts.

 video-projector
   The icon used for a projector that video gets displayed to.

 video-television
   The icon used for a television device, such as CRT or flat panel displays.