On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 20:49 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > The icon search is supposed to fall back to HiColor. The problem is > that now neither KDE nor GNOME has a set of HiColor icons to fall back > to. The answer to this should be obvious (and it needs to be added to > the standard). We need to have a list of secondary backup icon themes > that will be searched when a fall back to HiColor doesn't find an icon. > I suggest that this be in a file so that it can be easily changed (or > changed by the user). > > The current XDG standard allows this secondary list *before* HiColor but > it does not specify how this is to be implemented. We appear to have > hard coded CrystalSVG before HiColor and this is a mess for anyone that > doesn't use CrystalSVG. This would also work if implemented with a > configuration file since it could be changed to what I suggested by > adding "hicolor" at the start of the list. So, actually, we don't need > to fall back to HiColor; what we need to do is to fall back to the list > of fallback icons in a file as this will cover all contingencies. >
Not that I think any of this will solve the icon theme mess, but GTK+ already has a setting for this: Net/FallbackIconTheme string Name of an icon theme to try as a last resort How about simply using that ? _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
