From kde-core-devel  Sun Aug 29 15:48:28 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 15:48:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: icon locations
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93594182111837

Torsten Rahn wrote:
> 
> > share/icons/locolor
> > share/icons/hicolor
> > share/icons/large
> > share/icons/mini
> 
> Yes! Great idea!

Sounds good to me as well.

> > 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 ... ) ?

Better not. Think about systems with a large user base.

With the new loading mechanism every user would/could be free to
override system icons with local ones.

> In addition to that we should adopt another naming-
> scheme for icons -- Something like:
> 
> icon-device-cdrom.png
> icon-mime-image.png

I agree that type specifix prefixes like 'device' or `mime' would be
useful but I don't see the need of a common one like `icon'.

Harri.