Projects/Oxygen/namingSpec/devices

Specification compliance of icon names

Icon names without trailing stars already exist in the freedesktop.org icon naming specification.

 audio-headset                 OK *
 audio-input-line              OK *
 audio-input-microphone        OK
 battery                       OK
 camera-photo                  OK
 camera-web                    OK
 cpu                           ->  computer-cpu *
 computer                      OK
 computer-laptop               OK *
 drive-harddisk                OK
 drive-remote                  OK *
 drive-removable-media         OK
 drive-removable-media-usb     OK **
 drive-removable-media-usb-pendrive  OK **
 input-gaming                  OK
 input-keyboard                OK
 input-mouse                   OK
 input-tablet                  OK
 media-floppy                  OK
 media-flash-memory-stick      ->  media-flash-memory_stick **
 media-flash-sd-mmc            ->  media-flash-sd_mmc **
 media-flash-smart-media       ->  media-flash-smart_media **
 media-optical                 OK
 media-optical-audio           -> svn rm, and replace with a
                                  combination of media-optical
                                  and emblem-audio 
 media-optical-recordable      OK *
 modem                         OK
 multimedia-player             OK
 multimedia-player-apple-ipod  OK **
 pda                           OK *
 phone                         OK *
 printer                       OK
 scanner                       OK *
 video-display                 OK
 video-projector               OK *
 video-television              OK *

 * suggesting this for inclusion into the icon naming specification
 ** not in the spec, but let's keep it out of there anyways,
    it's not really suited to be a standard icon

To do for Oxygen

Icons that are in the spec, but not yet in Oxygen's devices/ (after renaming) so they need to be added. Descriptions taken from the specification.

 audio-card
   The icon used for the audio rendering device.

 camera-video
   The fallback icon for video cameras

 drive-optical
   The icon used for optical media drives such as CD and DVD.

 media-flash
   The fallback icon used for flash media, such as memory stick
   and SD.

 media-tape
   The icon used for generic physical tape media.

 media-zip  [included in Tango]
   The icon used for physical Zip media.

Postponed

It's currently not clear if those will stay in the spec, you might hold off drawing those icons until it's clear what will happen with them.

 network-wired
   The icon used for wired network connections.

 network-wireless
   The icon used for wireless network connections.

Don't know what to do with...

 cpu
   The specification does not contain any low-level processing
   units, such as CPUs or RAM. I can't think of an appropriate
   "category" name for those. The only word that I found which
   comes close was "internal-*" (internal-cpu, internal-memory, ...)
   but I'm not sure if this consistent with the rest of the
   devices category in the spec and extensible enough.
   Input and better ideas appreciated.

   I would suggest using the existing base level: "computer"

--JRT 12:36, 11 July 2007 (CEST)

Summary of the suggested additions

The ones marked with * and should therefore go into the icon naming specification, presented here in a shorter list for a better overview. Including a suggested short description text like needed for inclusion in the spec.

 audio-headset
   The icon used for handsfree headset devices that combine a pair
   of headphones or earphones with a microphone.

 audio-input-line
   The icon used for audio line input devices.

 computer-laptop
   The icon used for a portable computing device as a whole.

 drive-remote
   The icon used for remotely accessed drives, such as
   NFS or WebDAV mounts.

 video-projector
   The icon used for a projector that video gets displayed to.

 video-television
   The icon used for a television device, such as
   CRT or flat panel displays.

Summary of optional suggested additions

The ones marked with *, but less important, maybe a good idea, but they are not absolutely needed for inclusion.

 media-optical-recordable
   The icon used for recordable physical optical media,
   such as CD-R and DVD-R.