On Sun, May 5, 2024 at 8:37 AM <christ...@cullmann.io> wrote: > On 2024-05-04 21:56, Akseli Lahtinen wrote: > > On Saturday 4 May 2024 14:47:35 GMT+3 christ...@cullmann.io wrote: > >> My proposal: we enforce Breeze as icon set and style everywhere. And > >> we > >> provide still a way to overwrite that for the user, but if the user > >> didn't set something manually, idenpendent what the system propose, > >> we > >> just use Breeze. And we depend on that as dep e.g. in Kate, if you > >> install Kate, that icon set and theme is installed. > > > > +1. For me as someone who changes icons sometimes just to see and > > tinker > > around, > > i think this makes sense. We have reliable fallback, but we still allow > > users to customize things which is, well, our thing! :) > > > > And if the custom icons break i do not end up with broken apps, so > > i really do not see any downside here, as user or dev perspective. > > Yes, if some user switches a theme or style in our system settings > or in the application (like we do it with the color scheme switcher some > applications like Kate have) that is fine. > > But beside that, we should just force our default style and icon set, > like we do on Windows and macOS already, that will even make some > patches > and ifdef's useless we need now to sprinkle in all apps we really > support on > these platforms. >
Definitely agree with this, having to add special handling to every application to get a good experience on that platform is not ideal. Having our Frameworks handle this in one place, with a consistent approach, will overall improve the quality of the experience users get with our software outside of a Plasma desktop environment (and reduce developer porting workload) - and might help break some of the age-old stigma that KDE apps have to be used with a KDE desktop environment. > > Greetings > Christoph > Cheers, Ben > > > > > - Akseli > > > > ps. I am bad with mailing lists, lets hope this sends to right place > > lol >
