On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:15:11PM -0500, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:35 +0200, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > - application menu icons > > - consensus seems to be that every application *has* to ship a hicolor > > icon. > > When did that consensus come about? > uhm. nobody except JRT screamed against it, maybe? dunno. :)
> Any application that just > uses an icon from Table 2: Standard Application Icons in > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html > > should not be required to ship its own icon. In fact, they should > not ship their own version. > we can simply define those applications to be be components and then the problem is gone. :) > > - private application icons > > - to be able to theme the app's private icons, the app needs to look > > for icons from the configured theme(s) in some standard locations, > > like share/icons/<theme>/apps/<app> or whatever - some ideas were > > brought up in the discussion a year ago. > > My recollection is that developers should not install these > anywhere under share/themes. The recommended place for them > is under share/<app>/icons/<theme>. Since these icons only > ever need to be loaded inside your application, it's sufficient > to add this directory to the icon search path within your code. > this is a nightmare for assembling and installing those themes ... > > imo, the complete search order of icons should be configurable through > > the theme choice xsetting. [...] > > Can't we just get it right? I don't want to see this in > our desktop preferences dialogs: > > Icon lookup search order: > (*) Forward > ( ) Reverse > ( ) WTF?! > haha. re-read the original proposal and think why this attack doesn't make any senese. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Chaos, panic, and disorder - my work here is done. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
