From kde-commits  Thu Oct 31 23:09:37 2002
From: Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:09:37 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Four solutions (Re: kdenetwork/kit/icons)
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 04:19:14PM +0100, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez wrote:
> That's talking nonsense. Why do you say that? Do you really think we want 
> kit have no icon in its toolbars or somewhere else? If you remove those 
> hi* icons and keep cr* icons kit will have the correct icons shown. 

Not for stand-alone releases of apps that work with KDE 3.0. It will fail
if not hi* icons are available.

So either:

- third-party releases of apps within packages are discouraged. They will
  either require an upgrade/installation of kdeartwork/kdeclassic or KDE
  itself (libs/base/icon-handling), which removes the option for developers
  to keep applications in CVS a bit more backwards compatible. If there's a
  new feature in libs, you *must* use it, immediately, because you're part
  of KDE.

or

- we allow applications to maintain their *own* custom icons, for all themes.

or

- we keep hi* in the main packages for now. The third best reason being the fact
  that completely removing it is a bit drastic for a .1 and should be done
  for 4.0, the second best that this late in the release cycle it might
  create more problems than anticipated (adding Crystal as default broke the
  freeze and it can't be argued it was important since the PR hinted at it,
  removing hicolor was not necessary) and the best is that it would solve
  everyone's issues for now.

or

- upgrading a package requires not only a kdelibs upgrade, but also a
  kdeartwork upgrade. This should clearly documented and in the
  announcements. A new kdeartwork 3.0 is released with the hi* icons which
  have been removed outside of kdelibs which allows applications with
  third-party releases to be used with 3.0.

Depending on the size of kdeartwork compared to the size of keeping hi*
icons outside of kdelibs, one of the latter two seem like the best options.

Rob
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