Icon / Symbol for software without gui

[MalteKiefer]

Maybe there should be an icon that lets the user not, that there is no GUI for this software. Like Neomutt.

[MalteKiefer]

Or a new category. Terminal Apps

[kwizart]

We can have both an icon and a new category, but a new category would would be relevant if we have several components already...

[MalteKiefer]

for the cat:

• onedrive
• neomutt
• watchman
• azure-cli

and we can split syncthing into gtk and terminal version

[MalteKiefer]

When you merged all PRs, I will create the new category. Maybe we call it "Terminal Apps". What do you think @kwizart?

[thestonewell]

It could be a new category. In parallel using (or in the case of non-UI installs) not using an icon can help.

BTW, am working on adding icons for all plugins (where it makes sense). But having a hard time keeping up with all the new plugins :)

Should I commit them as is so you can see how icons are handled and add them with any new plugin by default?

[MalteKiefer]

do you create the Icons by yourself or from any Project? Or the Software original Icons?

[thestonewell]

I am using the original icons (also due to copyright), but am making sure to convert them to a 48x48 png

[MalteKiefer]

that ist great. we should add to Code of Conduct or how er war to call IT (Look #28) a Part, that every PR should have a icon included

[MalteKiefer]

I am using the original icons (also due to copyright), but am making sure to convert them to a 48x48 png

There ist an update for fedy. You do not use the latest version. :smile:

[thestonewell]

I do... but I took the screenshot earlier... duly following the latest master ;)

[kwizart]

I am using the original icons (also due to copyright), but am making sure to convert them to a 48x48 png

I think it should be better handled by scaling the icon as appropriate. Because we will trade one problem with another when people will have monitors with High DPI.

So If SVG is available, best is to use it. And We will have to find the in the display code a way to have the icons displayed correctly (I know brave and google-cloud-sdk aren't correct in the current fedy)...

[thestonewell]

I have tried the svg approach (and agree these would be best). Given existing code doesn't properly resize them to 48x48 though it is not easy to use them. Nor do all svgs come with a square viewport. Thus, I reverted to just using png and having full control. We could try and fix the code too but it wouldn't solve the square viewport source issue with SVGs

[kwizart]

@thestonewell Having 48x48 icons is better than no icons, if you can provide the missing ones in a PR it would be welcomed. I've tried to dive into the gjs code to see if svg can be scaled, and it looks like more difficult than I expected. (not a JS dev at least).