From kde-core-devel  Sun Aug 29 15:18:40 1999
From: Torsten Rahn <rahn () astrophysik ! uni-kiel ! de>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:18:40 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: icon locations
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coolo wrote:
> large and mini. I think, we should get rid of all
> icons in share/icons and move them to directories
> instead. So we'd have 
> 
> share/icons/locolor
> share/icons/hicolor
> share/icons/large
> share/icons/mini

Yes! Great idea! 

> and no icons itself in share/icons. What we would
> need is a way to let KIconLoader pick the best
> default. This way it would even be very easy to
> introduce alternative icon schemes (say other window
> managers come with a decent collection...).

Shouldn't icon-themes appear in the home-directory
( ~/.kde/share/icons ... ) ?

In addition to that we should adopt another naming-
scheme for icons -- Something like:

icon-device-cdrom.png
icon-mime-image.png

GNOME already uses something similar  to that
(with gnome-... instead of icon- ...)

> A similiar scheme would then be introduced in 
> share/toolbar, but there the problem isn't as
> urgent as we only have one scheme right now.

Yes we would need something like 

/share/toolbar/locolor
/share/toolbar/hicolor

And we need a change concerning the toolbar-buttons:
Right now you can use 22x22 pixel-pixmaps there. If 
you color the pixels at the edge of these icons the
picture hits the edge of the toolbar-button. This
looks extremly unprofessional. Of course we should 
stick with the size of 22x22. But the area on the 
toolbar-buttons should measure at least 24x24. 
This way we get a 1-pixel margin around every icon. 
of course it should not be possible to paint on this 
margin (by using a 24x24-pixel-pixmap.).

> What do you think? The biggest consequence would
> be that I'd rename all appname.xpm to lo-appname.png

Yes. Thank you very much in advance for doing this!

> and copy the icons from the 1.1 branch to hi-appname.png
> and large-appname.png. Almost the complete rest would

Please do this after KDE 1.whatever is out.

> Cristian Tibirna wrote: 
> > And then write "one-radio-button" GUI into 
> > kcmdisplay/style which will
> > handle the symlinks.
> No, don't touch 1.1.2. Let's ship it as it's now in CVS and 
> a locolor.tgz that extracts to /share/icons for those of
> us that have to live with 8bit :)

Yes, please don't touch it!!! Otherwise you risk that at least 
two peaceloving people would want to become violent and help 
you to knock out your insomnia immediately. ;-))) 

BTW: Should we create a link from the desktop to locolor.tgz and 
add a document that describes what to do to install the locolor-
icons?


Torsten