Tristan Van Berkom wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:38 +0200, Kristian Rietveld wrote: > >> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:49:44PM +0200, Jakub Steiner wrote: >> > [...] > >> The concern which I want to raise, and which I already did in my >> previous mail, is the following: "Does updating icons account as a >> break of backward compatibility?". Running a GTK+ application which >> has some custom drawn icons with the new stock icons, might make those >> custom icons look out of place. A GTK+ application which is putting a custom >> drawn "overlay" on a new stock icon might look out of place. And, for >> example Gossip, is using the gtk-justify-left icon as an icon for the >> "View Previous Conversations" menu item -- this might also break with a >> new stock icon which is using a different metaphor to communicate the >> intention of the item to the user. Or is using a stock item for a >> different action as intended seen as a misuse of the API? I am sure >> Gossip is not the only application doing this. >> > > FWIW, I think its better for everyone if that would be considered a > misuse of the api - I dont think gtk+ makes any gauruntees about > what a "next" or "apply" icon will look like, changing these icons > on a regular basis can even help teach applications to be more > diligent in thier use of the api. > I think it is clear that if you use "gtk-foo" icon for "bar" then you're misusing it. But let's not forget about the reasons for doing it: there may simply be no other alternative other than no icon at all. gtk icons set is not exactly rich to cover even simplish non-stock metaphors, and if a programmer wants to have an icon for "foobarize" he will use "gtk-jump-to". Yes, bad and all that. Icon theme maintainers say that's plain wrong and bad for user and everything, but what can we do?
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