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Subject:    Re: [kde-artists] App icons for non-SC apps in the oxygen iconset, useful?
From:       Nuno Pinheiro <nuno () oxygen-icons ! org>
Date:       2013-01-09 13:08:39
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A Ter=E7a, 8 de Janeiro de 2013 21:01:02 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau escreveu:

what ever you guys fal its best, im tempeted to say that ith the icons are =

good enough you could ship them upstream to oxygen, i will probably aprove =

them..

btw can i see the new icons?

> Hi,
> =

> tl;dr okay to remove Calligra app icons from oxygen iconset?
> =

> (follow-ups only to kde-artists@kde.org, thanks)
> =

> For the upcoming 2.6 release Calligra has been giving its apps some new,
> slightly refined app icons (hi*-app-*.*).
> =

> Problem now is, the oxygen iconset also contains icons for at least those
> apps which had not been renamed in the last two years (karbon, kexi,
> krita)... Cmp. e.g.
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons/32x32/apps/
> =

> Which results in the fact that the new ones from Calligra will not be use=
d,
> due to being shadowed by those in the oxygen-iconset. Not what is wanted =
by
> the Calligra devs, as you can imagine :)
> =

> Solution 1: simply update the icons in the oxygen iconset
> =

> That has the problem that Calligra is not part of the SC, and has as min.
> KDE Platform dependency something old (even 4.3, well, known are at least
> users that use the latest Calligra with KDE Platform 4.6). So no solution
> with regards to them.
> =

> =

> Solution 2:  install the app icons with a "calligra" prefix, e.g.
> calligrakexi
> =

> Solves the shadowing by the icons in the oxygen-iconset, by now longer
> having matching names. But that makes the icons in the oxygen-iconset
> useless, as nothing will use them then.
> =

> Any better ideas?
> =

> To ensure consistent app icons the Calligra devs are currently considering
> solution 2 for the upcoming 2.6 release. But as said, this also means that
> the icons in the oxygen iconset are no longer needed and just bloat the
> size of the iconset. So I would propose to remove these icons from
> trunk/kdesupport/oxygen-icons:
> =

> oxygen-icons/48x48/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/48x48/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/48x48/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/128x128/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/128x128/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/128x128/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/64x64/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/64x64/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/64x64/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/22x22/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/22x22/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/32x32/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/32x32/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/32x32/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/16x16/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/16x16/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/16x16/apps/krita.png
> oxygen-icons/256x256/apps/karbon.png
> oxygen-icons/256x256/apps/kexi.png
> oxygen-icons/256x256/apps/krita.png
> =

> Maybe even from the 4.10 branch.
> =

> Does it make sense to have icons for non-SC apps in the basic oxygen-icon=
set
> at all? Looking at the sources I see that there are icons for a few for
> them, so it seems for most apps it is no problem at all to serve their own
> app icons, which will usually be in oxygen style anyway.
> =

> Thoughts, opinions?
> =

> Cheers
> Friedrich
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