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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How to install icons for multiple themes
From:       Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date:       2017-04-20 10:31:12
Message-ID: 3251862.UBPcUOPhIc () agathebauer
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On Donnerstag, 20. April 2017 11:34:39 CEST Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> 2017-04-20 11:30 GMT+02:00 Milian Wolff <mail@milianw.de>:
> > [...]
> > Hey Albert,
> > 
> > sorry for the delay and thanks for the response. The above makes me wonder
> > about the functionality of ecm_install_icons. As it stands, it is
> > completely broken for anything but the hicolor theme, don't you agree? I
> > would say we should fix it there, somehow...
> > 
> > It is very unfortunate that the themes can come up with their own path
> > mapping...
> 
> Indeed - unfortunately it's to late to change that now :-/
> 
> > How do other applications deal with this situation? Should the apps only
> > install hicolor, and the other per-theme icons be submitted to the
> > corresponding icon themes?
> 
> That's exactly how this is intended to work, anything except the
> hicolor/locolor default themes is essentially expected to be
> self-contained.

So that means I'll have to rework ecm_install_icons:

- deprecate the THEME argument
- extend documentation

I'll try to find the time for this and submit the patches then.

Thanks everyone

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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