nf2 wrote:
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Getting back to this actual question:
If different DeskTops install icons in HiColor there is going to be a
problem.
Currently, GNOME prefixes their icon names with: "gnome" and by so
doing avoid this issue. KDE naturally presume that you will only use
KDE so they just have simple icon names and don't even consider the
issue.
BUT, we are going to have standardized icon names so we are going to
have collisions with HiColor icons from different DeskTops.
How do we deal with this??
Hmm. I'm really not an expert on this, but from my understanding a
"theme" is a set of icons which are designed in the same style.
Therefore there has to be be - for instance - only a single icon for the
home-folder in a specific theme. There is no need for desktop prefixes
in icon names, like "gnome-fs-home", or "kde-fs-home", because the two
icons would look the same anyway.
If icons look different in style, they shouldn't be in the same theme.
I certainly agree with that! :-) But, that is part of the problem.
Since there is no central organization that is producing the HiColor
theme (like Tango icons), icons from other themes are being installed in
HiColor.
And - of course - Gnome-VFS and KIO should use the same icon-names for
file-types. To me - an icon theme is nothing desktop related - it's
desktop session related (But different desktops can have different
default themes). The desktop session has to tell the name of the current
theme to all applications, regardless which toolkit or vfs they are using.
Since there is no standard HiColor icon set, and all DeskTops should be
using it as a fall back theme, it is highly probable (almost certain if
we use standardized names) that if you install more than one DeskTop on
your system that you will be installing more than one HiColor of the
same size, context, and name.
The issue is how we deal with this. And, I suppose, the extent that we
need to deal with this -- we could just ignore it and hope that it goes
away.
--
JRT
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