From kde-core-devel  Thu Jun 01 23:14:18 2006
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 23:14:18 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [kde-artists] Where to install (new) HiColor icons]
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On Thursday 01 June 2006 12:15, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
> On May 31, 2006, at 8:16 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> > Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:46:57AM +0200, David Faure wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >>
> >> It has been discussed to death on kde-artists.
> >>
> >>> "Jonathan said KDE will NOT support the HiColor icon theme" seems
> >>> to be simple escalation of the issue;
> >>
> >> I said we don't ship hicolour icons, not that we don't support it.
> >> Hicolour is the fallback icon space and is used by third party
> >> applications so that their icons will always be found no matter
> >> what icon theme is selected by the desktop environment or user.
> >
> > Which is why we need HiColor icons so that if you select an icon theme
> > which doesn't have the needed icon that the icon loader will fall back
> > to HiColor.
>
> please show me the part of the xdg spec that states this.

"Implementations are required to look in the "hicolor" theme if an icon was=
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not found in the current theme."

Second paragraph in the section "Directory Layout"

I'm really dumbfounded why this seems to be so difficult to understand by K=
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artist ppl. This shit has been going on for years now [1], get a clue peopl=
e.

Cheers,
Waldo

[1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=3Dkde-core-devel&m=3D103641674224845&w=3D2
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