Binary package hint: ubuntu-mono
I maintain a GTK app used in-house at my university. It's a graphical editor for the input to a scientific model. (You can see a screenshot at http://amcg.ese.ic.ac.uk/index.php?title=Spud .) In the model options, some things are optional, and can be activated by clicking a plus icon on the right hand side of the TreeView; such things can then be deactivated by clicking on a minus icon in the TreeView. (You can see both the pluses and minuses in the screenshot.)
These icons are represented by a gtk.STOCK_ADD and a gtk.STOCK_REMOVE. But sometime between lucid and maverick, the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon used in the Ambiance theme got changed from a minus sign to a red circle with a bar through it, which to me has a meaning much closer to "cancel" or "danger" than "remove". As a visual metaphor for removing elements of the input to the model, it no longer makes sense. My users who have just updated to maverick have been a bit confused ...
So, is the right thing to do:
a) to bundle my own plus and minus icons, breaking consistency with the rest of the desktop, or
b) should the gtk.STOCK_REMOVE icon to be changed back to the minus sign it was in lucid? Is there a formal description of what the STOCK_REMOVE should signify anywhere? I couldn't find it through google.
Was there any discussion of the change on a mailing list anywhere? I googled for it but couldn't find any.
Like I said, the icon was perfectly appropriate in lucid, but it changed in maverick.
Any advice gratefully received!
Thanks,
Patrick
Does anyone have any advice? I guess if no one is interested, I'll just bundle the clearlooks icons with my application ..