From kde-core-devel  Tue May 30 20:26:18 2000
From: Kurt Granroth <granroth () kde ! org>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:26:18 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kiconloader is scary, and broken
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Geert Jansen wrote:
> Ok, true, I misread. But still I think the $KDEDIR/share/icons toplevel
> directory should not be polluted by icons, as it contains a rather
> complex subhierarchy. ( The icon "themes" )
> 
> I think we can ask the authors to change their (KDE2) apps. They need to
> port their sources to the new iconloader anyway, because it is not
> completely source compatible. Asking them to change one more line in the
> Makefile.am's seems very be acceptable.
> 
> Which apps are you referring to?

Old .kdelnk files, I imagine.  The kdelnk files will correspond to the
KDE 1.x way of doing things... but the icon loader used to load the
icon lists in the kdelnk is the KDE2 one.
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