On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:30:24 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:

> 
> 
> On 08/29/2016 03:53 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 15:01:53 +0930 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
> > 
> >>
> >>
> >> On 08/29/2016 02:37 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 23:28:53 +0000 Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me>
> >>> said:
> >>>
> >>>> After chatting on IRC I think there is another approach.
> >>>> The underlying principle is that we have 2 different viewpoints - that
> >>>> which elm is FDo compliant - and that which it should be seperate.
> >>>
> >>> yup. i'm on the "elm has its own theme mechanics and thus this also
> >>> applies to icons. it applies to wallpapers in e, and everything else" but
> >>> there are peolpe who want elm to mimic their gtk/qt etc. apps and use
> >>> those icons. so thus the option to turn fdo theme use on or off at the
> >>> elm level.
> >>>
> >>>> If the elm icon theme were able to hint at which FDo theme it is
> >>>> complatible with (if any) as mentioned earlier then we could do this:
> >>>
> >>> i dislike these things. it breaks the principle of themes being
> >>> self-contained data bundles that just work without any data outside of
> >>> them.
> >>>
> >>>> *) remove E's "icon theme for enlightenment" checkbox - we should always
> >>>> assume you are configuring E
> >>>
> >>> yes. i agree.
> >>
> >> Here I slightly disagree, if E/Elm are using the option to take icons
> >> from the elm theme rather then the FDO them should we disable the list?
> >> or should it just set the FDO theme for gtk/Qt (Doing this saves having
> >> to install a different application to set it) See my other mail.
> > 
> > the icon selection applies to everything, UNLESS the checkbox says "dont
> > applye to e/efl". then it applies to everything else except e/efl. simple
> > enough. solves the core issue at hand.
> > 
> Yep pretty much, but the checkbox probably shouldn't be checked by
> default so the user still takes icons from e/elms's theme unless they
> choose to do otherwise

indeed thats an argument for the default. is the default to match icon themes
across e/efl and other apps or to have e/efl have icons that match its theme
primarily first but able to match icon theme if people want witch a checkbox.

i think just keep this as simple as possible at least at the config ui end.


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