From freedesktop-xdg Mon Jan 10 15:58:45 2005 From: Olivier Goffart Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:58:45 +0000 To: freedesktop-xdg Subject: Re: Emoticons theme specification Message-Id: <200501101658.45990.ogoffart () tiscalinet ! be> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=freedesktop-xdg&m=117278169709349 Le Dimanche 9 Janvier 2005 20:05, Owen Taylor a =E9crit=A0: > - Does it really make sense to have emoticon themes separate from icon > themes? While I can imagine it being neat to be able to trade just > an emoticon theme, my expectation would be that the emoticons > would just follow the general appearance of my desktop. c.f. the other thread, i think emoticon theme is also something that can be= =20 shared. > - MNG? icon themes don't support MNG ... and GNOME doesn't support MNG. > MNG could probably be added to the icon theme spec > in a similar way to SVG. Do current emoticon themes use MNG? > Would APNG be a better choice? GNOME doesn't support APNG either > but it would be a lot more trivial to add.) Ok, MNG was for animations, and we could use gif anyway. > - Should the spec support SVG? Both GNOME and KDE support SVG icon > themes, and it seems that people might want scalable emoticons. SVG is probably a good idea. i don't know if khtml support it fine thought. > - What about size handling? Do you have to create a separate theme > for each size? What about scalable emoticon themes? i'll take care. > - We seem to be using .ini-style files more than XML files for theme > information. Can the emoticon theme information be wedge into > an .ini file in some natural way? If XML is the right format > (and we are using it in xdgmime), then I suspect GNOME people would > appreciate if the specification limited XML to the GMarkup subset: the XML format is simple. > - I'm not sure a hidden .directory file is the best way to handling > theme naming. Right now we do naming with > /usr/share/themes/index.theme /usr/share/icons/index.theme ... if > you used one of those two directories, then you could just piggyback > off of that. If not, then I think an index.theme file would be > better. maybe