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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: crystal icons to hicolour for external applications
From:       Richard Smith <kde () metafoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2005-06-07 0:07:28
Message-ID: 200506070107.28674.kde () metafoo ! co ! uk
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On Tuesday 07 June 2005 00:57, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:58:45PM +0100, Richard Smith wrote:
> > On Monday 06 June 2005 16:56, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> > > Should KDE applications not released with the main KDE (KOffice,
> > > extragear and everything outside KDE SVN) install icons to hicolour?
> > >
> > > This would be incase KDE changes its default icon theme from Crystal.
> > > Applications inside KDE would be fine because we can rename those
> > > along with the KDE schedule but applications outside KDE's release
> > > schedule would find themselves without any icons if the user installed
> > > a KDE version that had a new icon theme as the default one.
> >
> > Could we instead install the crystal icons as crystal, and do some
> > automake/unsermake magic to automatically create a symlink pointing at
> > the crystal icon if the corresponding hicolor icon doesn't exist?
>
> Maybe, but it wouldn't achieve anything over just installing in
> hicolour, and it would be move complex.

It would make it more obvious that the icons were crystal and not hicolor. 
Which in turn would allow us to more easily see which crystal icons are 
missing.
-- 
Thanks,
Richard
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