From kde-core-devel  Thu Oct 31 17:21:16 2002
From: Antonio Larrosa =?utf-8?q?Jim=C3=A9nez?= <larrosa () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:21:16 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kdenetwork/kit/icons
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103608504529214

El Jueves, 31 de Octubre de 2002 17:49, Havoc Pennington escribi=C3=B3:
> Antonio Larrosa Jim=C3=A9nez <larrosa@kde.org> writes:
> > No, no. _Even_ if you're only supporting >=3DKDE3.1, apps outside of cvs
> > _must_ install their icons to "hicolor". Remember that "hicolor" =3D=3D
> > "default", so what I mean is, applications must install their icons to
> > the "default" icon theme. It's a bit unfortunate that we have to name
> > the "default" icon theme "hicolor" (instead of plain "default"), but
> > it's needed to keep backward compatibility with existing KDE apps.
>
> Remember that the icon theme spec is shared, so you don't really want
> to call a theme plain "default" (it may not be the default in GNOME or
> whatever). "KDE Default" would be a better name.

Well, to quote the draft of the icon theme spec:=20
(http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec.html)

| In order to have a place for third party applications to install their=20
| icons there should always exist a theme called "default"

The problem is that if KDE changes to calling that theme "default" then=20
we'll stop supporting old kde apps which people still use. With the recent=
=20
changes I had to do to the KDE icon loader I tried to get something as=20
similar to what was proposed in that page as possible.

In any case, that "default" icon theme wouldn't be visible to the user (he=
=20
cannot select it from the control center), so there's no problem in naming=
=20
it that way (in fact, it's just the directory which is called "default" :)=
=20
)

>
> There was a thread on theme naming and theme inheritance and where
> apps should install icons on xdg-list a little while ago, it was left
> somewhat unresolved, this is something that should be sorted out.
> Third-party apps should really install to the same place for all
> desktops.

I was invited to discuss the spec there some time ago when the draft was=20
beginning to be made, but unfortunately I was trying to leave KDE=20
development at that time to relax for some months.
Perhaps I can join again after 3.1 is out.

Greetings,

=2D-
Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
KDE core developer - larrosa@kde.org
http://devel-home.kde.org/~larrosa/
C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with=20
dirt--BP.Hought