192225 - Classic theme should follow freedesktop icon theme

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Themes, defect)

Description

[Julien Olivier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021202

Freedesktop.org created an icon theme spec
(http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec.html). I think Mozilla
should respect and use the user's default icon theme instead of the
Netscape4-style toolbar icons in classic theme. I think it's possible as the
classic theme is already able to handle GTK themes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
N.A.

Comment 1

[Vedran Miletic]

Classic theme means "theme from Netscape4 times". I think it shouldn't be
changed, simply because it's "classic" :)

I vote for marking this wontfix.

Comment 2

[Prognathous]

-> to default owner and QA contact

Julien Olivier, If I understand your suggestion, then the following summary
would be more accurate:
"Create a new default theme based on Freedesktop icons (instead of Classic)"

Would this new summary be correct?

Is this new theme supposed to resemble Classic? Can you provide a link to a
screenshot of these icons?

Prog.

Comment 3

[Julien Olivier]

-> Julien Olivier, If I understand your suggestion, then the following summary
would be more accurate:
"Create a new default theme based on Freedesktop icons (instead of Classic)"

-> Would this new summary be correct?

Yes, I guess it's what I meant.

-> Is this new theme supposed to resemble Classic? Can you provide a link to a
screenshot of these icons?

The theme doesn't actually exist, but what it would do is dynamically load the
user's preferred icons (provided by icon themes) following freedesktop's icon
theme spec. So, basically, it would have a different appearance for each user,
because it would follow the icon theme selected by each user (the icon theme
being defined by KDE or GNOME).

I hope it's clear...

Comment 4

[Tiago Freire]

I came in and diligently looked for preexisting bugs. I think it would be great
for mozilla to use the freedesktop standard, for the following reasons:

* This standard is DE-agnostic, AFAIK KDE and Gnome are going to stick to this
standard, so instead of having KDE themes, Gnome themes, and Mozilla themes, we
would have just 'themes' and every freedesktop-icon-theme compatible application
would benefit from it.

* Mozilla developers themselves would not need to create a bunch of themes,
there would be a muche greater communitiy maintaining themes and developing
(well, at least one theme would have to be there for other OSes but still).

I think it would be great to have a consistent, single look-and-feeling desktop.
BTW, mozilla could make use of the freedesktop shared-mime database too (will
file a bug for that). 

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Julien Olivier]

This feature request still applies. Please don't automatically close it.

Comment 7

[antistress]

Firefox 3 will have native icons

Comment 8

[Stephan Sokolow]

Cleanup in aisle 192225. Can someone close this now that Firefox 3 is out with native icons?

Comment 9

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Can someone close this now that Firefox 3 is out with
> native icons?

Please see the product component, tis is not a Firefox bug.

Comment 10

[Stephan Sokolow]

Oops. Sorry.

Comment 11

[u294409]

This could be done thanks to moz-icon:// implementation direct in XULRunner, done esp. for Firefox (mentioned in comment 7).

Only thing needs to be done is editing a lot of CSS files and redoing some icons to suit Tango style.

Probably won't fit into 2.0, but 3.0, who knows ;) ?

And I propose Tango-compatible-and-native theme not to be called Modern or Classic, to leave them for users who prefer them. "Tango" or so is ok ;) .

Comment 12

[Philip Chee]

FYI There is a third party "GNOMErunner/GTK for Seamonkey" theme using moz-icon:// for many but not all images (since GTK doesn't have suitable images for all our uses.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/gnomerunnergtk-for-seamonkey-2/

Comment 13

[exalm7659]

Is it still needed?