From kde-devel  Sat Jan 30 19:59:42 1999
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 19:59:42 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KIconLoader buglet
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=91772934019531

On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 wrote Carsten Pfeiffer:
>Hi,
>
>when you're using KIconLoader to load some app-specific icons like
>  KIconLoader     *loader    = kapp->getIconLoader();
>  static QPixmap  folder_xpm = loader->loadIcon("folder.xpm");
>
>you usually get the icon located in
>$KDEDIR/share/apps/APPNAME/pics/folder.xpm.
>
>But if the user installed pixmaps in ~/.kde/share/icons/, e.g. from the
>popuplar MacOS Theme, then that BIG blue MacOS folder xpm is returned.
>IMHO, KIconLoader shouldn't look in ~/.kde/share/icons but rather in
>~/.kde/share/apps/APPNAME/pics

IMO the only correct path is:

~/.kde/share/apps/APPNAME/pics
$KDEDIR/share/apps/APPNAME/pics
~/.kde/share/icons
$KDEDIR/share/icons
.  (current directory)

--Stefan