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Le mercredi 23 novembre 2011 à 14:06 +0000, Justin B Rye a écrit :
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> There are two sentences regarding the content and I don't see how they fit
> together. And I don't understand the difference between icons and symbolic
> icons. Icons are symbols and thus they are symbolic. Did I miss something?
Maybe it's talking about "symbolic icons" in this sense:
<A HREF="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons">http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/SymbolicIcons</A>
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Yes. Also, they are more intended for use on a dark background. For example:<BR>
Normal: <IMG SRC="cid:1322068759.7568.3.camel@tomoyo" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"> Symbolic: <IMG SRC="cid:1322068759.7568.4.camel@tomoyo" ALIGN="bottom" BORDER="0"><BR>
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...though reading that doesn't makes it much clearer to me what the
term is intended to convey. *All* desktop icons are necessarily 100%
symbolic, in that they represent things, so what could it possibly
mean to single out a particular set of icons as the symbolic ones?
Maybe when this package description says "symbolic" it means
"graphically simple"?
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Feel free to propose another wording for the package description.<BR>
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I hope end users aren't going to be expected to learn this unfortunate
new piece of developerese.
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Of course not.<BR>
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Cheers,<BR>
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