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List:       opensuse-factory
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-factory] YaST2 icons
From:       Martin Schlander <martin.schlander () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-02-07 19:58:57
Message-ID: 1973161.BU9WlrDl5U () linux-841s
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mandag den 6. februar 2017 09.51.44 CET skrev Josef Reidinger:
> On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 09:54:25 +0200
> "opensuse.lietuviu.kalba" <opensuse.lietuviu.kalba@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Oxygen icons still
> > packaged in yast2-branding-openSUSE (and I don't see no missing icons
> > with this theme), but it requires to be manually activated by
> > 
> > I don't know, why openSUSE decided to stop automatically provide
> > Oxygen icons at least with KDE Plasma desktop.
> > 
> > Related bugs:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=955893
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=942136
> > 
> 
> Well, noone maintaining it. In our team we do not have designer, so SLE
> designer team maintains SLE icons and opensuse branding team maintain
> one one icons set. So if someone step in and maintain it, then
> we will welcome it and can readd it.

I maintained the YaST Oxygen icons. And the Oxygen icon theme wasn't dropped 
for lack of maintenance. At least not of the icons themselves. At some point 
YaST just stopped using the Oxygen icons under KDE. I don't even remember 
anymore if they were just considered too ugly (I remember Jos Poortvliet 
complained about them publicly while he was still openSUSE community manager) 
or there was some technical reason YaST stopped using different themes 
depending on the desktop used.

Iirc there was even a fallback in place where Tango icons would be used if 
icons were missing in another theme, so the other theme would have to be 
unmaintained for a very long time, for enough new YaST modules to appear for 
it to be a serious problem - and probably 90% of openSUSE users only have the 
default set of YaST modules installed anyway. And as Lietuviu Kalba pointed 
out the icons are even still installed in the distribution to this day, just 
not used.

Admittedly the icons aren't super pretty. Since I'm no real artist, I just did 
some half-assed remix of upstream KDE icon SVGs in Inkscape. But at least in 
all modesty I  thought they were better suited for KDE environments than the 
Tango icons. 

Not sure there's much point in bringing back Oxygen icons now. But a new 
Breeze theme (matching "KDE5") could probably be created by volunteers in the 
same way without too much effort, using and remixing existing upstream KDE 
Breeze icons. If only people could count on YaST actually using the work, or 
at least just allowing users to manually switch theme in a clean, supported 
way, that isn't broken by updates, such as manually replacing files installed 
by an rpm.
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