From kde-devel  Tue Jan 08 05:20:59 2002
From: "Lawrence E. Widman" <widman () cardiothink ! com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 05:20:59 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: IconLoader cannot find icons in 2.2.1 or 3.0 beta 1
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=101046725916362

I am the new maintainer for kdat (tape backup utility) and am
having trouble getting KIconLoader to find the icons.  They
are found without trouble in KDE 1.x, but not in 2.2.1 or in
3.0 beta 1.  The same problem was reported by Jon Doud to this
list on 21 Sep 2001 11:27:46 -0400.

The code that looks for the icons is:
    KIconLoader *l = KGlobal::iconLoader();
    _archive       = new QPixmap(l->iconPath("package", KIcon::Toolbar));
    _backup        = new QPixmap(l->iconPath("kdat_backup", KIcon::Toolbar));
    ....

The icons as distributed with the utility are named as:
    hi32-app-kdat.png
    hi48-app-kdat.png
    lo16-app-closed.png
    lo16-app-kdat.png
    ....

The kdeamin package comes with a script am_edit that is in
    ./kdeadmin/admin/am_edit
that creates Makefile.in with code to install the icons in
subdirectories of $(kdaticondir) according to the prefixes on
the icon's name.  For example,
    lo16-app-closed.png -> $(kdaticondir)/locolor/16x16/apps/closed.png

The problem is that KIconLoader isn't looking there.  It's looking
in $KDEDIR/share/icons for the simple icon names (e.g., closed.png).

I note that when I compiled konqueror, it put the icons in the
application/color/size-specific subdirectory and the
application finds it fine.  However, KIconLoader isn't
instantiated in konqueror or in libkonq.

One solution is to change the Makefile to put the icons where
KIconLoader is looking.  The problem with that is that all the
Makefiles are made by automake and aren't distributed directly.

Another solution is to use a different argument to the _ICON
macro.  Currently, Makefile.am for the icons contains:
  kdaticondir = $(kde_datadir)/kdat/icons
  kdaticon_ICON = AUTO  
The am_edit perl script says that a list of files can be
substituted for AUTO, but that doesn't work.

Another solution is to use a different macro, but all the
macros I see are content-specific, and I don't see a clean way
to do that.

So, my question is, is the KIconLoader behavior I'm seeing the
way it's supposed to be (i.e., looking in $KDEDIR/share/icons
rather than in an application-specific and color/size-specific
directory)? 

  1.  If so, how can I get automake to put the icons there?

  2.  If not, how do I fix it?

Thanks! - Larry Widman
 
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