On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:36 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote: > 6. Create a subpackage of symlinks from the missing icons (the old icon > names) to the new icons. If you don't have a new icon that matches, > find the closest generic one, or simply put in the old icon image with a > marker to indicate that it needs to be replaced. See this nice > technique: http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/01/10/511202.aspx
To clarify this: the point above is to make it easy to find cases where we *do* have an old-style icon name and image, *and* a way to map it to a new-style name, but we *don't* have a Tango-ified image to go with the name. We can obviously not ship with the big yellow markers ;) I don't know how the themes inherit from each other these days, but my Tangoified 2.12 desktop shows a mixture of Tango icons and old-style icons, and it doesn't look bad. For 2.14, we do need a way to fall back to the old icon images, which are already drawn, if Tango doesn't yet have an image for a certain icon name. So we need the symlinks or something. We can then instantly deprecate the old icon names, but still make sure that they'll produce an icon image that is usable. Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
