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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Small icons are gone for older apps
From:       Torsten Rahn <torsten () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-18 9:35:52
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On Friday 18 May 2001 09:52, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>


>  I vaguely remember some recent icon changes, but if this is intentional, 
> I don't see any benefit in it. New packages provide icons of all sizes,

The benefit is that

-we don't need to parse one extra file per app-start.
- we don't need to ship locolor-icons. 

> unlike the older ones, so the icon of the proper size is always found, and

The icons which are not found are those of the locolor-theme.
It doesn't have something to do with the icon-size directly.

Greetings,
Tackat

> there's no need to search for other sizes. But if an app doesn't have the
> correct icon size, it's IMHO better to try to find at least some icon
> instead of simply returning no icon at all. There are also 3rd party KDE
> apps that have new releases once per half a year, so it's not possible to
> have all icon sizes for all apps.
>
>  Lubos Lunak
> --
>  l.lunak@email.cz ; l.lunak@kde.org
>  http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli

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