Hi Robert, everyone.
Here is a proposal for the menu icons, in Tango style. I believe the
current oxygen icons are fine, but they are very packed in the space
and rather complicated. I went for simpler metaphors and smaller size
to give it some air to breathe.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/bento-icons.png
While I believe the tango icons are fine for this purpose and are very
"webby", another thing we might try for the menu specifically is
something more simple. Either having black/dark grey stencils or
having the menu in dark grey and having them light grey would perhaps
be great to indicate navigation.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/all-icons.png
In addition, it may be desirable to reconsider if every single item
needs an icon. I would suggest to really only focus on the main items,
like this --
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/24178/opensuse/major-icons.png
It is a menu after all.
cheers
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Jakub Steiner