[Kde-accessibility] Plans for KDE 3.4

[Frans Englich]

Hello folks,

Related to this; it could be good to know that there's an extension to the 
Free Desktop Icon Theme Specification under work, which standardizes icon 
names(and other details). The result is that icon themes will be desktop 
environment agnostic. For example, it wouldn't be necessary to borrow icons 
from another theme, one could simply switch to that theme(regardless of if 
GNOME folks created it, for example).

http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-October/005084.html

Another not so related technical detail is the works of an icon cache, an 
mmaped binary file, which contains various data for fast lookups. It is 
possible to put the actual images in this file, meaning that the icon theme 
itself could only be in SVG, while that binary file contains the png rendered 
versions, in various sizes(practical from a maintenance perspective).

http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-October/005140.html


Cheers,

		Frans