On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 03:40:56PM -0700, Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:27:57 +0200 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > >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: > >> > - 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 ... > > No, it's not; this is easy, and is exactly how it should be done. > i think we read the posting completely differently ... i thought shaun was talking about the 3rd party icons, as otherwise he'd be just creating redundancy - i already said that the primary icons should go into a private location.
> The default private icons for an app go in > $prefix/share/<app>/icons/hicolor/. The app then appends > $prefix/share/<app>/icons to the theming search path. > yes, very good. > There's a tutorial out there somewhere that explains this better, but > I can't seem to find it right now. > damn, i don't know how to find it, either. i'd be interested in the projected layout within a theme. -- 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
