danirabbit
commented
3 months ago We had previously added some emblem- namespaced icons to fix the issue of abusing these icon names for status of things other than chat. I think we fixed all the places the chat ones were being used. So now that we've done a major version release this would be a great time to go ahead and fix the full color ones to be chat specific. And we can drop any non-fdo ones
What Happened?
The
user-prefixed status icon for the fullcolor icons are colored dots. For symbolic, they are speech bubbles.Steps to Reproduce
Fullcolor:
Symbolic:
Expected Behavior
Ideally they should be the same. The FD.o naming spec says these are specifically chat icons for the status of the user in chat. But it doesn't say what design should be used.
elementary seems to use the
user-icons as device/network/general status icons (though Icon Browser lists them as chat icons).user-away, for example, is used for low ink in printer, when a document modified in Code, bluetooth is pairing, or network needs authentication.user-offlineanduser-available, for example, are used more as networking icons (where maybenetwork-offlinewould be more appropriate, but the FD.o dictates a style for that one which would not fit, and also there is nonetwork-availablename in FD.o).So I don't really know which direction to go to make these uniform.
This shows some limitations in the FD.o spec which maybe could be updated to help resolve this sort of thing.
OS Version
7.x (Horus)
Software Version
Latest release (I have run all updates)
Log Output
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Hardware Info
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