Call for agenda for Workstation WG meeting 2015-Mar-18

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 20:28 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Will they stay black and white? I use them for that reason. (Not
> necessarily a default or anything I'm recommending, just my personal
> style preference....)

Yes, they're still black and white. It's just a somewhat different
style.

Proposed text: "App launchers MUST have a unique[3] launcher icon at
least 128×128 in size with an alpha channel." Then in the second set of
bullets: "Apps SHOULD include a scalable symbolic icon in a similar
style to GNOME's symbolic app icons."

I don't think it's reasonable to make the symbolic icon a MUST until we
have symbolics for the current set of default apps. This is unfortunate
because now that the app menu displays symbolics, it is highly-visible
when some (most) apps use fallback hicolor icons there. It may have been
a mistake to start using symbolics in the app menu, at least when so
many GNOME apps are missing symbolics, let alone third-party apps. (It
also might have been a genius way to encourage better high contrast
coverage... time will tell.)

(That proposed text also corrects a minor issue we discovered with the
current wording, which technically mandates an exactly 128x128 icon even
though that was surely not the intent of the rule. A 256x256 or 512x512
with no 128x128 should be sufficient; the GNOME HIG do not even
recommend installing a 128x128 at all.)