Comments on Lubuntu Artwork 0.32

[Pascual Lucero]

Hello,

I would like to use this mailing this to congratulate Rafael Laguna and all
the Lubuntu Artwork team for the new version 0.32 of Lubuntu Artwork. Now,
players like GNOME-Mplayer and Audacious work with wonderful button icons
and now we are starting to feel a consistent look among applications, which
is nice. I am using Lubuntu 12.04 and I just installed the new version.

However, I would like to mention some suggestions and a short "wish list"
for icons, hoping that my comments would be received by the artwork team.

1) Application icons in PCManFM: When I open the file manager and see a
list of files, I still see some problems with the icons for some filetypes
that I would like to mention.

- DOC files (.doc, .docx) have an application icon which is almost the same
for text files. The difference is not very noticeable (both are white), so
it gets confusing when I open a folder with many files and try to locate
the ones I am interested in. In Windows (and Previous versions of Lubuntu)
we had a blue icon, something that was much easier to distinguish. Perhaps
something more distinctive can be done in this case.

- Postscript files (PS and EPS) are common enough to deserve their own
application icon. Currently, there is no one for EPS files and the PS icon
is almost the same of DOC files. In Windows, there is one associated with
GSView, with distinctive colors. Perhaps something along the lines of
Ghostscript can be done for these filetypes.

- Board Game files (.pgn, .fen, .epd, trn) have no application icon (so in
Lubuntu they look the same as executables. Perhaps an icon along the lines
of some board or something like that can be made for these filetypes.

- LateX files are quite popular in our world, specially among scientist and
engineers for technical reports. Currently, the application icon is the
same as plain text files, which is confusing, because in the same folder
you could have several files associated with LaTeX compilation using the
same icon: log, aux ... all mixed with .tex, .cls or .bib files.

 2) Application buttons in the Web Browser. I have opened several programs
to see the new buttons and everything looks nice (well, I don't like the
icon of "Save file as" ... it is easisy confused with the one for upload
files) ... but Firefox is still in awful state. I have Firefox 15 in my
computer and several things are happening now:

- Go back and Go forward buttons are still green.
- The "reload button" looks horrible ... almost like it was made at hand
and the stop also looks bad ... perhaps the resolution? perhaps that it
doesn't look like a curve, but like a hexagon?
- The home button shows a sort of arrow directed upwards, instead of a
solid home like Google Chrome or Opera. It is much better a "solid home"
instead of just the boundary.


That's all. I hope these comments can be taken into account and hopefully
we can see even more improvement in the artwork department. Again,
congratulations, because things look much better compared to 0.30 so the
artwork team deserve all the recognition for this nice work.

Thanks for your attention,
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