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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: [kde-artists] Where to install (new) HiColor icons]
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-15 9:46:57
Message-ID: 200605151146.58808.faure () kde ! org
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On Sunday 14 May 2006 21:05, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> r538403 | jriddell | 2006-05-07 13:05:44 -0700 (Sun, 07 May 2006) | 6 \
> lines Remove hicolour icons. KDE does not ship hicolour icons, they are \
> for third part applications.

Honestly I am confused by the whole icon theme situation. But deleting \
someone else's work (without discussion? although I guess there was \
discussion?) is never a good thing. Jonathan, we need to find a consenssus \
on this issue before doing more ping-pong commits.

There seems to be a misunderstanding about the icon theme structure or \
naming (I remember from Antonio's page that there was some complication for \
backwards compatibility, something about default!=default and \
hicolor!=hicolor which makes the whole matter rather complex indeed...)

I mean, obviously there is an agreement on shipping non-crystal-svg-looking \
icons, not just on how they should be named (hicolor or kdeclassic), right?
"Jonathan said KDE will NOT support the HiColor icon theme" seems to be \
simple escalation of the issue; if the icontheme is called kdeclassic but \
is loadable by gnome as "hicolor" that's good too, right? But I don't know \
what the exact plan was though. I remember something fishy like "hicolor \
means whatever the default kde theme is, for backward compatibility" or \
something equally unclear ;) Jonathan, can you explain your reasoning? I \
think kde-core-devel is missing your side of the story.

Antonio, you're the expert with the icon loader. Can you tell us how the \
"classic-looking" icons installed by kde should be called, so that gnome \
can use them?

In any case it sounds like something we can easily straighten out for kde4, \
where compatibility is a lesser concern. We can call hicolor hicolor, and \
get rid of kdeclassic - if that's what makes interoperability with other \
environments easier.

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).


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