[Icons Request] Apps, folders and mimetypes

[gusbemacbe]

Привіт/Привет Олексій @varlesh and Сергій @SmartFinn!

See the apps with icon of image:

These three apps with icon of image are Dolphin, IGdm and Figma.
I will prepare a list for you.

Apps

App Name:	Icon Name:	Description:	Webpage (optional):	Original Icon:
Dolphin	dolphin	A file manager.1	--	--
Figma	figma	A vector edition app	view the site	view the icon
IGdm	igdm	A Instagram chat client app	view the repository	view the icon
Thunderbolt	thunderbolt	A thunderbolt panel in GNOME Settings	view the description	the same site

1. Please do not symlink dolphin to the file-manager, therefore, design a specific icon for dolphin, so I use Dolphin and Nautilus and do not want to get confused with two apps with the same icon.

Mimetypes

App Name:	Mimetype Name:	Description:	Webpage (optional):	Original Icon:
Affinity Designer	application-afdesigner, application-vnd.afdesigner, application-vnd.affinity-designer	A Affinity Designer file extension	view the site	You can check the icon that I developed for Suru++.
Gravit Designer	application-gvdesign, application-vnd.gvdesign	A Gravit Designer file extension	view the site	view the icon

Folders

• Bordeaux, browish wine, preview:

Please observe that bordeaux, brown and red are very different colours.

• Vermilion, see the Wikipedia article about vermillion in Russian, preview:

Please observe that vermilion is not close to magenta, pink or red. Vermilion has a bright scarlet diamond colour shape, very used in the character Scarlet Witch.

I prepare the ready codes for in the file tools/build_color_folders.sh:

COLORS=(
	# [0] - primary color
	# [1] - secondary color
	# [2] - color of symbol
	# [3] - color of paper
	#
	# | name     | [0]   | [1]   | [2]   | [3]   |
	# |----------|-------|-------|-------|-------|
	[blue]="      #5294e2 #4877b1 #1d344f #e4e4e4"
	[black]="     #4f4f4f #3f3f3f #c2c2c2 #dcdcdc"
	[bluegrey]="  #607d8b #4d646f #222c31 #e4e4e4"
	[bordeaux]="  #c2655b #7f372f #592721 #e4e4e4"
	[brown]="     #ae8e6c #957552 #3d3226 #e4e4e4"
	[cyan]="      #00bcd4 #0096aa #00424a #e4e4e4"
	[deeporange]="#eb6637 #e95420 #522413 #e4e4e4"
	[green]="     #87b158 #60924b #2f3e1f #e4e4e4"
	[grey]="      #8e8e8e #727272 #323232 #e4e4e4"
	[indigo]="    #5c6bc0 #3f51b5 #202543 #e4e4e4"
	[magenta]="   #ca71df #b259b8 #47274e #e4e4e4"
	[orange]="    #ee923a #dd772f #533314 #e4e4e4"
	[pink]="      #f06292 #ec407a #542233 #e4e4e4"
	[red]="       #e25252 #bf4b4b #4f1d1d #e4e4e4"
	[teal]="      #16a085 #12806a #08382e #e4e4e4"
	[vermilion]= "#f76363 #E34234 #BB362B #e4e4e4"
	[violet]="    #7e57c2 #5d399b #2c1e44 #e4e4e4"
	[white]="     #e4e4e4 #cccccc #4f4f4f #ffffff"
	[yellow]="    #e2b322 #b58f1b #4f3e0c #e4e4e4"
	[custom]="    #value_light #value_dark #323232 #e4e4e4"
)

[SmartFinn]

@gusbemacbe is there a package with desktop-file that uses dolphin as the icon name or it's manually created?

[gusbemacbe]

It is created manually. I changed system-file-manager to dolphin for not getting confused with file managers with the same icon system-file-manager. Imagine a developer or designer using more than three file managers – Dolphin, Nautilus and PCFM – with the same icon and getting confused, having to check which file manager is.

You can see the example of file managers with different icons to avoid the confusion of the user of many file managers: Distinction of File Managers at Suru++

[gusbemacbe]

I rechanged from dolphin to system-file-manager (original icon name for Dolphin), you can see how Dolphin and Nautilus have the same icon , then I will get confused. For xample:

[varlesh]

Thunderbolt - it's wrong name. Because on Gnome used symbolic icons

[gusbemacbe]

Privet, see the screenshot:

[varlesh]

@gusbemacbe Oi ) Why you me show screen desktop-file... We need only icon name on desktop-file.
For example:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=Telegram Desktop
Comment=Official desktop application for the Telegram messaging service
TryExec=/home/alex/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/Telegram/Telegram
Exec=/home/alex/.local/share/TelegramDesktop/Telegram/Telegram -- %u
Icon=telegram
Terminal=false
StartupWMClass=TelegramDesktop
Type=Application
Categories=Network;InstantMessaging;Qt;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tg;
Keywords=tg;chat;im;messaging;messenger;sms;tdesktop;
X-GNOME-UsesNotifications=true
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.23

[SmartFinn]

@gusbemacbe but nor gnome-control-center nor adwaita-icon-theme don't provide the thunderbolt icon. Don't sure that the icon will be useful.

[varlesh]

[varlesh]

@gusbemacbe Where used thunderbolt icons APPLICATION or/and TRAY or etc???
If it's gnome application - this use symbolic icons and where?

[varlesh]

I'm on KDE and can't test it

[gusbemacbe]

Hi @varlesh !

All the GNOME with "panel" desktop files are in the /usr/share/applications. I will attach a zipped file to you. It does not have official icon. But it is that icon image you posted. The same icon that Apple used on its sites.

gnome-thunderbolt-panel.zip

@gusbemacbe but nor gnome-control-center nor adwaita-icon-theme don't provide the thunderbolt icon. Don't sure that the icon will be useful.

If they do not provide, why did they provide many desktop files which contain Icon= and appear with "?" icon in the /usr/share/applications?

[SmartFinn]

@gusbemacbe I can't answer this question. As well all of these desktop-files have NoDisplay=true line.

[gusbemacbe]

Hi @SmartFinn

Yes, you are correct, but they are shown at Dolphin as you can see many files with "?" and with gear icon.

On Budgie, I also manually edit the GNOME Panel desktop files to omit the NoDisplay, to open quickly one of panels in the Krunner or in the Budgie menu because Budgie does not have GNOME Dash.

In Budgie and GNOME, the only two applications which do not contain Icon= and NoDisplay=true are GCR Viewer, which is an application for viewing images and XDVI, which is an application for viewing DVI files. They are shown in the menu. I will attached a zip of desktop files.

desktop files.zip

[gusbemacbe]

Some desktop files in the /usr/share/applications, in GNOME and in KDE, use mostly symbolic icons inadequately. Why inadequately? Because some apps are shown in the menu with the symbolic icons. You can notice ones apps use the symbolic icons in the menu.

[varlesh]

Not see reason added new folder colors. I think we already have enough colors... Also on script available custom option, for your colors.
About Dolphin, Nautilus, PCManFM, Nemo and other 100500 FM-icons - this icons used system-file-manager icon on all distros and users will be confused if i'm added new Dolphin icon, but this icon not applied. Also i'm not have more ideas for design more FM-icons and think this is useless work.
For solve this you can use colored folder for another FM, for example folder-blue, folder-red and etc.

[varlesh]