[Bf-committers] linux app icon proposal

[Matt Ebb]

On 02/11/2006, at 21:27 PM, Jakub Steiner wrote:

> Howdy Blenderheads.
>
> I've designed an application icon for Linux Blender to be on par with
> the quality that both Windows and Mac OS X users enjoy. The icons  
> follow
> the Tango style guidelines [1], making it suitable for KDE, Xfce and
> GNOME environments.

Excellent work!

Blender has been missing a decent icon on Linux for a while now -  
Even in modern distributions that I've seen, there's only been one  
old crappy version in one size only. This one ( http:// 
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/3/39/20051020172512% 
21Blender.png ) seems to be used a lot, which isn't that good, and is  
a quite incorrect usage of the logo too.

Now, I'm more than happy to commit this to CVS, but I'm uncertain of  
how to go about this for Linux. Hopefully just including it in the  
source will encourage the distributions to use it in their packages  
that they make, but otherwise for people who download it, it's more  
tricky. Since there's no installer for Linux, and the icons don't get  
built into the application like on Windows or Mac, there's not really  
an easy way to make sure the icon gets set up there and used, is there?

We could just include the files in the build system so that they  
appear in the release archive, so people can copy them in themselves  
if they like, but it's a bit of a chore. Is there any easy system, or  
cross-distro/desktop method of making some sort of installation  
script, where you could doubleclick it, which then would set up a  
nice application menu item thingy and copy the icons to the right  
place on the system? Or is that not really possible in Linux these days?

Any Linux gurus/maintainers have any advice here?

cheers

Matt





>
> Icons - http://jimmac.musichall.cz/stuff/blender-linux-app- 
> icon.tar.bz2
> Preview - http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Artwork/WarOnBlobs.php
>
> Ideally these should install to
> $PREFIX/share/icons/hicolor/$SIZE/apps/.
>
> cheers
>
> [1] http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines
> -- 
> Jakub Steiner <jimmac at novell.com>
> Novell, Inc.
>
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