Common icon themes

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez wrote:

> > > and also it puts double work on the artists and they (he)
> > > already told me they don't want to mantain two icon themes.
> >
> > Symlinking all apps icons of crystalsvg to hicolor would do the job.
> 
> I'm sorry, but I think 844 symlinks is excesive.

No symlinks are needed if the app icons are in hicolor instead, with no 
other bad effects...

> > > My hard requirements are:
> > >
> > > 1) For any icon name referenced in an application desktop file, Gnome
> > > and KDE has to be able to get *some* icon, if one exists. It doesn't
> > > matter exactly from what theme it is.
> > >
> > > 2) In the namespace of icons that gets exposed to both KDE and Gnome
> > > there are only application icons (and possibly later other kinds if we
> > > manage to standardize more usages of icon themes).
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Your proposal breaks requirement 2, and is therefore unacceptable to
> > > me.
> >
> > Your points are definately valid.
> 
> Ok, then gnome should just follow the kdedefault symlink when requesting an 
> apps icon. It's basically the same idea than yours but with a single 
> symlink. (and kde should follow the gnomedefault symlink only when 
> requesting an apps icons too). Does it make more sense now Alexander?

There are various hacks that will allow icons to mostly work, and I'm 
sure Gnome will implement one of them. But I'm not interested in making 
any badhacks into a standard.

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