Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 07:23 schrieb Jonathan Blandford: > 2) Building off that, if ISVs are going to use the icon spec at all, we > need to give them a target. Asking them to target all known themes is > totally unreasonable; asking them to choose a style for their default > icons is also untenable. I would totally expect them to throw their > hands up in disgust, as there's nothing valid they can do here. The > tango project, at least, seems to be trying to solve this (very hard) > problem.
Those "ISV"s you are mentioning never focus on Linux only, so a large amount of them is crossplattform applications. If you look at crossplattform applications you might realize that many of those use their _very own_ icontheme. They don't do this for the _lack_ of icons but to: - promote their very own visual identity. - to have a consistent look of the dialogs for their documentation (so that you don't need to add a screenshot for each OS to your docs). - make the application look trendy. uniformity was a thing of the 90ies. diversity is a thing of the current decade. Think about it: On the Windows plattform the Tango icon theme will look alien. Instead of looking alien the ISV will prefer trying to give the application a distinct look which will promote its own visual identity. So trying to appeal to ISV's is doesn't make sense here. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards, Torsten Rahn _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
