Going to request remove of any Calligra app icons from the Oxygen iconset

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 11 January 2013 10:49, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:

> Requested and after no veto meanwhile executed by myself, by removing the
> icons from oxygen iconset in trunk and the 4.10 branch.
>
> So starting with KDE Platform 4.10 there are no more karbon, kexi and krita
> app icons installed with the oxygen iconset, so no icons shadowing the hi*-
> app-{karbon,kexi,krita} installed from the Calligra packages/sources.
>
> Poses the question if in the Calligra sources the icons should be still
> renamed to calligrakarbon, calligrakexi and calligrakrita (and thus not
> matching the app names), or if we are okay with that with KDE Platforms <= 4.9
> only the older version of the icons, as coming from the oxygen iconset, are
> used.
>
> I would argue to keep the icon names as they are. Because I assume that most
> people for now who might be using Calligra apps will use the latest KDE SC as
> well, so given that Calligra 2.6 only arrives after KDE Platform 4.10 with the
> current release plans, they should not be affected by the icon shadowing.
> And that way all app icon names will match the names of the executables. Which
> I like at least for consistency.

You know, we cannot assume that. If we support certain minimal version
of KDElibs, we assume people can have them installed.

People always use various versions of KDE or even no KDE. We're open
to them, aren't we? For many, Kubuntu LTS 12.04 is the choice because
long time support is their value.
Recently Steam shows how often people upgrade (result: not always).
>From my stats of Kexi usage people still stick to whatever their
distros provide, sometimes  that's Calligra 2.4 with old KDE
compilation or Ubuntu desktop.

I would argue to rename the conflicting icons to calligra prefix, and
update the .desktop files and the code accordingly.

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