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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenetwork/kit/icons
From:       Martijn Klingens <martijn () martijn ! homeip ! net>
Date:       2002-10-31 21:24:11
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On Thursday 31 October 2002 21:28, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez wrote:
> So to put it brief, 3rd party apps don't have to change anything about
> where they install their icons, they previously had to install to hicolor,
> and still have to do so (and in the future).

Ah, and what I meant was that apps that require KDE 3.1+ could _also_ choose 
to install to 'default' instead. The KDE build system would then recognize 
the special tag 'default' in internally map it to 'hicolor' for compatibility 
reasons.

At least, that's what I meant when writing this mail. But after reading 
Havoc's mails on core-devel I think 'default' is a bad naming and 'kde 
default' should probably be used instead (although using 'default' would also 
work with Gnome and other desktops if I understood Havoc correctly. Hmm...)

I think ideally $KDEDIR/share/icons/hicolor should become a symlink to 
$KDEDIR/share/icons/default, or the other way round if we want to ensure 
hicolor is a 'pure' directory to avoid breaking apps depending on that. 
Additionally any app that wants to install icons into 'default' should have 
them installed in 'hicolor' and the required magic is done by either the 
buildsystem or such a symlink (whatever works reliable).

I hope this explains it a bit more, I don't really know how to describe it, 
sorry :-/
-- 
Martijn

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