[ubuntu-art] Human iconset is incomplete and inconsistent

[Frank Schoep]

On Jun 24, 2007, at 5:42 AM, Troy James Sobotka wrote:
> Alexander van Loon wrote:
> …
>> My question is then, does the Ubuntu (Art) development team and  
>> sabdfl
>> see these three facts as problems?
>
> Obviously across six releases it is very clearly not an issue, as
> unfortunate at that may seem.

Excuse me for jumping in, but although the above statement tends to  
be correct, there's a bit of subtlety involved. On top of that, I'd  
like to share a small piece of history.

During Edgy I spent a fair amount of time tracking down missing icons  
in Human and working with the professional icon designers to add  
these missing ones to the icon-set. If you compare Edgy to Dapper,  
you'll see a huge difference in icons, especially in the main menu.

So, although I'm not in the position to comment on the period before  
or after Edgy, I very much saw a big problem in the icon set being  
incomplete and in collaboration with the designers I made sure that  
the new icons were at least in line with the existing icons regarding  
palette and shape.

Back in the days we had a decent workflow for communicating the need  
for icons and seeing those new icons roll in to the distribution. One  
of the main tools was hosted on Daniel Holbach's server, but it seems  
to be down right now, the URL was:
http://daniel.holba.ch/ubuntu/ic/

I really, really wanted this mail trying to be helpful, but at the  
moment I have no clue whatsoever as to how the artwork team operates,  
or whether there is something happening at all so I'm a bit at loss  
trying to suggest a plan of attack.

With kind regards,

Frank