On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:41 PM, William Jon McCann <william.jon.mcc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you may have noticed we have recently deprecated Stock Items in > master. > > Some details on this change may be found here: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub > > Please let us know what you think.
Besides what Bastian already points out, I have another concern if we are to consider moving away from stock items completely. The document above points to this list of icon names: http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html#names What guarantees do we have that referring to an icon name in the "icon naming spec" will actually produce an icon ? Will GTK+ have a dependency on an installed icon theme which conforms to the basic spec ? (can GTK+'s configure script verify that there is a *complete* set of icons installed and bail out if it's not the case ?). When you refer to a stock icon, you know that if you installed GTK+ on a given system, the icon will be there, period, if it's not overridden by an icon theme, there is always a default icon. Having constant definitions of available stock items is also a nice thing to have i.e. referring to GTK_STOCK_BUMBLEBEE produces a compiler error, refering to "gtk-stock-bumblebee" will happily compile and leave you wondering if: a.) Did I misspell "bumblebee" ? b.) Is "bumblebee" really an icon name ? c.) Did I use the wrong Icon Theme, which failed to install a "bumblebee" icon ? d.) Was I so ignorant to use an icon name which was only supported by the Icon Theme that existed in my GNOME desktop environment ? Should I have known better that "bumblebee" would not exist in other environments, like the embedded device I just setup ? I'm not really against moving away from the stock items, but I think that it's important to be able to guarantee which icon names will be provided for *any* installation of GTK+, even if this is a small list of guaranteed icons. Cheers, -Tristan > > Thanks, > Jon > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
