How do we set our theme and where is it to be installed? Is it going to be a full Fd.o themeset or just enough to cover efm mime types? E icons have always been a tricky mess. However, fd.o icons have been a bit of a mess too.
On 3/2/09, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I just committed a major change to Enlightenment File Manager so it > will use Efreet to load FreeDesktop.Org (FDO) mime types and > associated icons. These icons will come from icon theme set at > Settings -> Look -> Icon Theme and existence of icons will thus depend > on it. For instance Tango does not provide "folder" icon, but Oxygen > (KDE4) is very complete and looks really good. If icons are not found, > then it will fallback to E17 theme default, so if you're using Tango > you'll keep seeing E17 folder icon and not Tango's. > > With that change we can now remove most icons from E17 theme and we > should create a freedesktop-compliant set. This is good because we can > have KDE and Gnome to use or icons (or at least most of them!) and > make look & feel similar, improving usability. So we need artists > (Toma? ManoWarrior?) to take care to provide such set. > > I'd like to ask themers/artists to look at E17 icon usage and try to > see if icons could use the standard naming scheme, so we share more. > Please see > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html > > Worth noting that at least on e17 code we still alow .edj icons, not > sure about Efreet but we could fix it to allow that as well. With that > we can still have nice animated icons using our technology and not > restrict to boring PNGs. > > Last but not least, it's not all happiness. Efreet is potentially not > as fast as we hope it could be. The cache needs to be fixed/improved, > we need to really speedup mimetype caching and icon finding. So if you > find out slow cases, report. If you have coding skills, try to > improve. Ask me (k-s) or Nicholas Hughart (mekius) at IRC. > > Regards, > > -- > Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri > http://profusion.mobi embedded systems > -------------------------------------- > MSN: [email protected] > Skype: gsbarbieri > Mobile: +55 (19) 9225-2202 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA > -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise > -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation > -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD > http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
