sounder 8 install report

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Jamie Wilkinson">

> * There are these ugly b/w icons, starting with the gnome foot next to
>   Applications, mixed in with colour icons (wireless meter, battstat
>   applet) and some really high density icons (Take Screenshot,
>   Rhythmbox) so the general feel of the panel and menus is that it's
>   brashly assembled, there is no cohesion, (and just because I want to
>   use the word dissonant here) the three types of icons feel
>   very dissonant.  I'd really like to see convergence on the simple
>   coloured icons such as the wireless meter, Terminal Server client,
>   About Ubuntu, and a move away from Take Screenshot and those dense
>   ones.
> 
>   (James Gregory suggests that these are actually from the high-contrast
>    icon theme, so I take back the comment about brashly assembled themes)

Yeah, as we're integrating our artwork, we're using a very complete but
arguably ugly theme to debug against. Once they're all covered up, our work
is done. :-)

> * The games menu is full of crap I'll never use, so I remove
>   gnome-games.  The Games menu item doesn't disappear but changes to a
>   folder icon.  I think it'd be better for the item to go completely if
>   there's nothing in there. (The games menu icon has since gone after
>   logout/login)

Annoying GNOME bug, but rarely seen. ;-)

> * Open Computer folder (from icon on desktop), open "CD ROM 1" (whose
>   icon is a rectangle?  WTF?)  get a Mount Error dialog.  Expand "Show
>   more details" and get "mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist"
>   :(

Icon due to debugging artwork.

- Jeff

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