Plasma theming: Re-using existing widget SVGs

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 15 July 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote:
> Marco Martin wrote:
> > [...] we could do the following:
> > 
> > use arrows.svg for the systray (so old themes wouldn't be completely
> > broken, they would have the arrows)
> > then provide smaller versions with like a 16-16-left element and so
> > forth, so the arrows would look nice also with sizes as little as the
> > systray ones (maybe even for taskbar expanders?)
> 
> Err... I'm not sure if I understand correctly, but are you suggesting to
> check at runtime whether "extender arrows" (small arrows, whatever you'd
> like to call it) are present in arrows.svg and use them if present, but
> fall back to the generic arrows (also from arrows.svg) otherwise?
> 
> If so, I can whip up a patch for quicklaunch and systray immediately. Who
> would I have to bug / ask in order to get the changes applied to the themes
> we are shipping (kde-artists?).

no, i think just the standard arrows should be used.
the theme itself will be able to pick the proper ones optimized for a certain 
resolution if present, not something one has to worry about :)
-- 
Marco Martin