Icon Naming Conventions (Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist)

Common Desktop Environment: Style Guide and Certification Checklist

Icon Naming Conventions

The basic name for the icon must be no more than seven characters. The size and color suffixes are appended to the name, as shown in Table 4-4.

Table 4-4 Icon Name Conventions


Size	COLOR	B&W	B&W Mask
48	Iconame`.l.pm`	Iconame`.l.bm`	Iconame`.l_m.bm`
32	Iconame`.m.pm`	Iconame`.m.bm`	Iconame`.m_m.bm`
24	Iconame`.s.pm`	Iconame`.s.bm`	Iconame`.s_m.bm`
16	Iconame`.t.pm`	Iconame`.t.bm`	Iconame`.t_m.bm`

The suffix .pm is for the color XPM format. The suffix .bm is for the XBM format. The suffix _m refers to the mask for the black and white icon.

Please note that you do not have to provide icons in all these configurations. Table 4-3 lists the required icons. For example, the .s icons are used primarily for things like tool bars, which your application may not have.

Figure 4-16 Example of a minimum required set of icons for Mailer