Is there an interface guideline regarding toolbar icons?

[Bou]

I've recently started using Tucan, an app to manage downloads from sites like rapidshare, and I have to say it's shaping up really, really well. It's a very young project, thought, and not much thought seems to have been put on the interface yet. It does not follow gnome settings about showing only icons / text under the icons / text next to the icons, and it doesn't use standard system icons either, but some huge SVG ones.

Is there a guideline for gnome apps regarding these issues? I would like to file a request, the program is just great and it's a shame that the interface could be improved.

The webpage, by the way: http://tucaneando.wordpress.com/screenshots/

[graabein]

There probably is. Have you looked up GNOME's human interface doc?

And is that Jonathan Richman in your avatar? I love that dude.

[Bou]

You mean this (http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/)? I looked, there's a section about the toolbar, but I saw nothing specific about icons.

The person in my avatar is El Fary, a Spanish showman, very dear, sadly deceased.

[mc4100]

It does not follow gnome settings about showing only icons / text under the icons / text next to the icons, and it doesn't use standard system icons either, but some huge SVG ones.

It's probably by design. You might be able to get them to fix it if you bug them enough.
I doubt you need to refer them to a spec for it, just make a case for reduced size displays or something.

Phatch (http://photobatch.stani.be/) is similar, though icons are not nearly as huge as the ones in your screenshot -- only slightly larger.

[Bou]

I already filed a bug about it and the guy just said we would NOT change the icons, no argument at all. I think he even deleted the request, he was really adamant about it.

So I want to have something to hold on to before I ask for it again.