Icons installed by apps

[Matthias Klumpp]

Am 22.09.2015 10:32 nachm. schrieb "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org>:
>
> El Dimarts, 22 de setembre de 2015, a les 14:17:28, Jaroslaw Staniek va
> escriure:
> > Hello,
> > A couple of related questions while wrestling with issues such as [1].
> >
> > Let's assume Kexi app installs some icons to
> > PREFIX/share/kexi/icons/oxygen/32x32/places/ or
> > PREFIX/share/kexi/icons/breeze/32x32/places.
> > Can these be searched by the icon engine?
> >
> > In kdelibs4 times PREFIX/share/apps/kexi/icons/oxygen/ was searched at
> > least and icons were used if names were globally unique (overriding
> > mimetype icons did not work).
> >
> > Now in kf5 times I guess I shouldn't install to
> > PREFIX/share/icons/breeze? I do not feel safe with this. I don't even
> > know if it's breeze/ subdir or some other name is guaranteed to exist
> > on a kf5 installation. However if I have guarantees, I am fine with
> > any solution.
>
> Install to hicolor?

Indeed. If you want to follow the freedesktop spec, hicolor is the place to
store these icons.
Other tools, like AppStream, will also be able to find the icons then, and
so do all other desktop environments supporting the xdg spec.
Cheers,
Matthias
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