I just upgraded tango-icon-theme from 0.4.0 to 0.5.0. The link icon has now grown to about the same size as the folder or file it applies to. I don't know if this is by design or meant for accessibility reasons, but it does look a bit on the silly side. I'm running Gnome 2.12.1 on Gentoo 2005.1/AMD64. I'm not running modular X yet.
After spending some time on your web site: this is emblem-symbolic-link which is showing up as 48x48 instead of 22x22 or 16x16.
I've filed a bug on this against nautilus http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321819
I opened emblem-symbolic-link.svg under the scalable/emblems directory in inkscape and under document preferences resized the canvas size to 16x16 and grouped and resized the icon too to 16x16. it was reduced to that size. however, the symbolic link emblem in the tango-project.org's icon gallery is much more refined (it's a separate icon, and not resized)
I see that in the nautilus bug linked in comment #2 there has been no movement since early December. Is there any kind of workaround that can be implemented while the final determination on what to do with emblems is being debated? Perhaps the same placement of smaller icons in the 48x48 directory used in gnome-icon-theme? Tango is a beautiful icon-theme, with the emblem-symbolic-link problem being a minor awkward exception.
Tango base theme is not intended for GNOME only. As much as I hate how this is exposed in nautilus, it needs to be solved the right way. Gnome icon theme emblems are a work-around from my point of view. Feel free to create a theme that implements similar workaround for emblems and inherits from tango. We'll be happy to link to it from the tango-project.org website. Either we ditch emblems from the spec/base theme or fix nautilus so that emblems can keep on following the same size logic as the other icons in the set.
I understand your desire to do this correctly. I'll look into documentation on icon themes (as I've never worked on these) and see if I can come up with something useful.
*** Bug 6027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 6100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've added a patch to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321819 that should fix the problem. If people could test it, and provide feedback, that would be great. Thanks.
This has been fixed upstream in nautilus. And never really was an icon theme bug.
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