the respective .desktop file in /usr/share/xfce4/panel-plugins uses "xfce-mouse" in its "Icon=" line. please replace that by something more meaningful (and theme-ingful ;) ) like "xfce4-cpugraph-plugin". (same bug reported on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin/+bug/636543 )
Or maybe 'utilities-system-monitor', which already exists in icon themes, and is a bit more informative?
I am not against having a dedicated icon, but someone would need to draw one and give it to me, as I don't trust my graphics skills too much. As for using utilities-system-monitor, I am not sure I want to reuse an icon that supposed to represent a different piece of software, even if they are indeed related, as I wouldn't want to weaken the user's mental association of what that icon usual refers to. Or am I mistaken? Is this icon supposed to be used by all sorts of system-monitor-ish tools, rather than a specific one?
I think that it would be good if cpugraph had a specific icon, I would volunteer to make an icon based on the one used by the cpufreq-applet, which in turn seems to be coming from the tango set (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/tango-artists/2006-April/000413.html). It seems that most xfce4-panel-plugins only have one icon, which is 48px. Would that be sufficient for you or would you like to have smaller icon sizes too?
Created attachment 3124 proposed icon for xfce4-cpugraph-plugin mashup of gnome's apps/utilities-system-monitor and tango's devices/cpu
Looks nice! Thanks a lot. I am glad I asked, rather than try to do it myself. Having other sizes isn't quite as important as having an icon at all, but if it isn't too much work, I'd appreciate having a few sizes under 48, and if you made it that way, an svg version would be great too.
Created attachment 3125 cpugraph icon 16px
Created attachment 3126 cpugraph icon 22px
Unfortunately I couldn't find the svg sources of the icons - that would have also made my life easier. So all I can offer right now is png. Hope that's ok. I quickly made a 16px and 22px variant of the icon.
I actually just enhanced the icons a bit visually (more contrast for the graph-part), I wanted to remove the currently attached icons from bugreport, but it seems even though it was me who added them I can't. So I attach them as a tarball now containing 16,22 and 48.
Created attachment 3127 enhanced cpugraph icons, 16, 22 and 48.
Too bad for the svg, but I'll do without. Thanks for the icons. I'll be integrating them soon.
(In reply to comment #11) > Too bad for the svg, but I'll do without. Thanks for the icons. I'll be > integrating them soon. I agree, if I have time I'll try to redo them in svg. (Not sure how soon that'll be... :/ ) Thanks for integrating them!
I have integrated the icons, and used them not only for the .desktop file, but also in the Properties dialog. The changes have been integrated to master, and will be used in the next version after the recently released 1.0.0 To make life easier to distros that would want to use these changes on top of 1.0.0, without waiting for the following release, they are also on a branch called "taskbranch/bug-6700" which starts from the "xfce-cpugraph-plugin-1.0.0" tag.
Also started using the icon as a logo on the wiki page: http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel-plugins/xfce4-cpugraph-plugin