>>2
how do i supposed to discern program or any other file in taskbar or browser, if it doesnt have unique icon? Having a uniq icon would also visualize duplicate files.
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Anonymous2012-03-03 10:52
Iconity - coming in your Ubuntu release
* Given a program name as seed it creates a new icon from a rich set of primitive forms*
If you want to do something interesting, think of a better way for a web browser to display CMYK images. Because right now, as it stands, the algorithms to handle such BS are dismal at best.
1. name takes more space on screen
Valid point. 2. name takes more time for brain to process
Confirmed for illiterate. 3. different files could have the same name
Then don't do that.
generating an icon from file's content/md5 could solve that
So now instead of a short descriptive name, you have a mass of pixels to comprehend. That doesn't sound fun.
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Anonymous2012-03-04 4:57
>>12
one could use the word frequencies of interesting words in the man page for the command. Maybe a google image search would yield something appropriate.
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Anonymous2012-03-04 6:32
Fucking programmers trying to design UI... :vomit:
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Anonymous2012-03-04 7:46
>>14
It's art. Artists are now replacing scientists.
>>13
One could scan symbol table or source code for a proggie to see what type activity it does (opengl, audio processing, etc..), then pick an icon based on that.