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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdenetwork/kit/icons
From:       Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date:       2002-10-31 22:14:57
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On Thursday 31 October 2002 23:04, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> On Thursday 31 October 2002 18:15, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > On Thursday October 31, 2002 09:08, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 08:33:25AM -0800, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > > Binary packages don't have an inherent "conflict" property.  It's
> > > > only on some broken systems where that happens.
> > >
> > > Imagine for example kmail and kword would install an identical icon
> > > at the same location. Let's assume the icon looks the same. If you
> > > just run 'make install' over it (you compile from source) the
> > > possibly previous existing icon gets overwritten. The user notices
> > > no difference. But later the user runs 'make uninstall' (for KDE
> > > source packages, stuff KDE releases) in koffice. Now his kmail looks
> > > broken because of the missing file. What do you suggest?
> >
> > Fine.
> >
> > Maybe you can answer the question that everybody else refuses to answer:
> > Is kdeartwork/kdeclassic maintained?  By whom?  If it's unmaintained,
> > then *that* redundant icon should be the one removed.
>
> A simple question: That icon changes has been done to all kde apps in CVS
> which ship with this release, nobody has gone mad, only you, why ?
Addition for Neil: mad as in "to get mad at a person"
(seems not be known to him, but won't call him insane, as he thinks I do)

> It was
> disscussed endlessly on many lists that we switch over to crystal/keramik
> and not that it is done (and the highcolor icons are even preserved in
> kdeartwork), where is the problem that you old icons will be in kdeartwork
> ? To install them from kdenetwork will give you simply nothing that
> conflicts with kdeartwork, or should we add a "Neil hi-color 2 icons"
> button to the icon theme selector if you install kdenetwork but not
> kdeartwork ? I simply don't get any rational argument by you (aside that
> you simply can't do what all others do) why you can't maintain your two
> silly icons in kdeartwork instead of kdenetwork.
>
> Could somebody just dumb that icons out of kdenetwork and end that
> senseless thread ?
>
> cu
> Christoph

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Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann@kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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