[Digikam-devel] Digikam/KIPI-Plugins icons packaging

[Luka Renko]

Hello all,

I would like to resolve packaging issues with icons in Digikam/KIPI-Plugins 
before the first KDE4 release. Currently we have the problem that some icons 
are duplicated from Oxygen, some are updated in Digikam (while Oxygen shipping 
older version) and some are just installed to wrong location. For the list of 
all icons installed by Digikam, see [1] (paths are relative to /usr).

I have talked with Digikam developers (Gilles) and Oxygen team (Nuno) in order 
to see how we can address this situation. The following is my proposed plan 
what to do regarding icons

1. Oxygen Icons in Digikam [2] (installed to /usr/share/icons/oxygen)
Apps: 
  - commit both Digikam and Showfoto icon also to Oxygen (trunk and 
branches/4.2 to get it in 4.2.1 and newer)
  - leave a copy of application icons in digikam as fallback (for other themes 
that may not provide appropriate icons). Icons should be installed under 
/usr/share/apps/digikam/icons

Actions:
  - all icons are already in KDE 4.2
  - drop them from Digikam package as most (all?) users are expected to have 
KDE 4.2 version of Oxygen by then
  - we expect that Digikam will depend/require Oxygen icons (from KDE 4.2) for 
0.10.0 release (as other themes do not provide all needed icons). For example, 
on Ubuntu, digikam package already depends on kdebase-runtime, that depends on 
kde-icons-oxygen.

2. Hicolor Icons in Digikam (installed to /usr/share/icons/hicolor)
- these are digikam specific actions and has to be installed by Digikam
- they should be installed to /usr/share/apps/digikam/icons/hicolor
- I was told that they might be on this location due to some KDE/Windows 
specific issue (that might be resolved with recent KDE/Windows version)

3. KIPI Export plugin icons [3]
- according to Oxygen team, these icons are not suitable for oxygen (due to 
quality/theming issues)
- these icons will be added to kipi-plugins/common/icons in SVN and will be 
installed by kipi-plugins into /usr/share/apps/kipi-plugins/icons

I would like to understand if there are any objections before I go and try to 
implement this. In particular it would be good to understand if this will also 
work for Windows and Mac OS X versions.

Regards,
Luka


[0] http://pastebin.com/m3ca5ad66
[1] http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/graphics/digikam/data/icons/oxygen
[2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183661