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[Brandon Watkins <bwat47@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, that makes sense. so hopefully light-themes support for that is in the
works. I did some more research on symbolic icons and it does look like
they should solve a lot of issues with the way icons currently work (for
example monochrome themes often end up with white icons on white
backgrounds in certain places and vise-versa).

I'm still pretty annoyed about some of the features that are being removed
from nautilus, but It does seem to be a true a new file manager isn't
really viable at this time.

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 4:44 AM, Georgi Karavasilev <motorslav@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Nautilus/Web (Epiphany) use the new Gnome apps theming and symbolic icons.
> This kind of theming gives all the power to the GTK themes, the tricky part
> is that the theme should support the new theming, otherwise the app will
> look broken (like the new Nautilus). Light-themes (Ambiance/Radiance) don't
> support such theming and should support it.
> You could say it is a pretty safe bet that more and more Gnome apps will
> start using this new theming and symbolic icons.
> Regrading the symbolic icons - they are not hardcoded, if the icon theme
> supports symbolic icons they will be used, otherwise the fallback is
> gnome-icon-theme-symbolic.
> Last, but not least marlin also uses the new theming and symbolic icons,
> so it also look broken in light-themes (see the attached screenie).
> My point is that dropping Nautilus just because it uses the new theming is
> just wrong, because more and more apps will start using that new theming.
> If there are other design issues it can be dropped.
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