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List:       kde-artists
Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] New Oxygen icon "page-zoom"
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-05-21 7:59:39
Message-ID: 4833D66B.9020209 () acm ! org
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Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Monday, 12. May 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>> I seem to be missing something here.
>>
>> Is there a good reason why this icon isn't called just:
>>
>> 	zoom
>>
>> which would be the fall back for icon names
>>
>> 	zoom-*
>>
>> ??
> 
> That's what my original idea (and even proposal for the ArtLibreSet) was as 
> well, but when thinking about this once more, it appears better to have an 
> icon that is not in the current theme but has an accurate metaphor, as 
> opposed to have a row of plain magnifier glasses that all look the same.
> 
> I'm quite indifferent about the page-* prefix, so I used the one from 
> ArtLibreSet. I'm convinced that ArtLibreSet's -magnifier suffix is 
> fundamentally wrong, so I used -zoom instead.
> 
> Makes page-zoom, which intentionally does *not* act as fallback for other 
> zoom-* icons.

Ah maybe.  However, we still need an icon named: "zoom" for fall back 
for missing zoom-* icons.  Are all KDE icon themes going to have all of 
the "zoom-*" icons.  I don't think so.

Actually, the icon naming spec needs it, but that is another issue.

-- 
JRT
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