Review Request 121448: Introduce ECMAddAppIcon.

[Alex Merry]

> On Dec. 12, 2014, 2:08 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
> > modules/ECMAddAppIcon.cmake, line 15
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121448/diff/1/?file=332663#file332663line15>
> >
> >     Would this actually work? The code looks to me like pattern_rx would just be the filename again, so fn would be empty, and the icon would never be appended to _list.
> 
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>     The doc in the origin cmake macro file seems to be out of sync with the official doc located in FindKDE4Internals.cmake, which is: 
>     
>     ---------------------------------------------------
>     #  adds an application icon to target source list.
>     #  Make sure you have a 128x128 icon, or the icon won't display on Mac OS X.
>     #  Mac OSX notes : the application icon is added to a Mac OS X bundle so that Finder and friends show the right thing.
>     #  Win32 notes: the application icon(s) are compiled into the application
>     #  There is some workaround in kde4_add_kdeinit_executable to make it possible for those applications as well.
>     # Parameters:
>     #  SRCS_VAR  - specifies the list of source files
>     #  pattern   - regular expression for searching application icons
>     #  Example: KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON( myapp_SOURCES "pics/cr*-myapp.png")
>     #  Example: KDE4_ADD_APP_ICON( myapp_KDEINIT_SRCS "icons/oxygen/*/apps/myapp.png")
>     ---------------------------------------------------
>     
>     normal file mode is not documentated and does not work
> 
> Alex Merry wrote:
>     I would still much prefer an API to match ecm_add_icons, as I noted at the start of this review. Would you be willing to do that? If not, I can probably find some time over Christmas to look at it.
> 
> Ralf Habacker wrote:
>     Just one question: As it turns out that the macro used in KDE4 only supports a "simple pattern" style and no single files, what is different or has been extended with KDE5 to require this now ?

Best CMake practices include listing all source files in the CMakeLists.txt file, rather than globbing them. That way, CMake knows when a file has been added (or removed), because the CMakeLists.txt file will change, and so it will automatically reconfigure when you run `make`. The icon installation function (`ecm_add_icons`) was changed to support and encourage that approach, and I think this function should also change to match it.

Additionally, I would like consistency between interfaces. Having ecm_add_app_icon behave completely differently to ecm_add_icons just makes things that much harder for users of e-c-m. They should use the same file naming scheme (or compatible schemes, at least), and similar arguments, in so far as they need similar information.

I'll admit it makes porting a little harder, but it should be possible to create a porting script without too much difficulty.


- Alex


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On Dec. 15, 2014, 8:01 a.m., Ralf Habacker wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 15, 2014, 8:01 a.m.)
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> Review request for Extra Cmake Modules, KDE Frameworks and Laurent Navet.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> This module, which has been migrated from the related KDE4 macto kde4_app_app_icon,
> supports platform specific application icon for Windows and Mac OSX.
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> On Windows this function depends on the external tool png2ico, which is
> provided by the kdewin-tools binary package. Sources are available at
> https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/kdewin.
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> 
> Diffs
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>   modules/ECMAddAppIcon.cmake PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/121448/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/12/12/a05ee2b5-64e3-4e44-ae34-4e1b7110e5f1__ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
> ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/12/15/8b3e226f-a70b-4998-983a-813730a436bf__ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
> ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/12/15/8433995f-b88f-426d-af54-46aba635ae1e__ECMAddAppIcon.cmake
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ralf Habacker
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