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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: icon question
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-03-24 8:48:07
Message-ID: 200503240948.07741.coolo () kde ! org
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Am Mittwoch 23 März 2005 01:45 schrieb Jason Harris:
> Hello,
> 
> What's the best way to make my application's icons available to icon artists 
> for inclusion in their icon sets?  I'm not talking about the application icon 
> itself, but toolbar icons specific to my application.
> 
> Is it sufficient to use the application-specific install path:
>   appicondir = $(kde_datadir)/myapp/icons
>   appicon_ICON = AUTO
> 
> or do the icons need to be installed in the global KDE icon directories to be 
> accessible by the various icon sets?
> 
> I realize that application-specific toolbar icons will have a low priority 
> when building iconsets, but I want to at least give the icon artists the 
> option to include them if they wish.

If you switch icon themes, the foobar/kstars_blah icon will have preference
over myapp/icons. Of course only if you use themed icons from the start.
So as application developer, the most important part here is naming the
icons so they do not clash with other applications.

Greetings, Stephan
 
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