Common icon themes

[Alexander Larsson]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Julien Olivier wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I totally agree with your idea but still have one question. Imagine I want to 
> create an icon theme that would provide icons for both KDE and GNOME. I 
> suppose that, according to your suggestion, I should create - say - only 1 
> icon for mozilla and it will be used by both. OK. Now, imagine that my icon 
> theme provides a icon for the "print" action in the toolbar. Is it enough to 
> provide only one icon for that and it will appear in KDE apps' toolbars as 
> well as GNOME stock bars ? Or should I put 2 icons (for example 
> gnome_print.png and kde_print.png) ? I must admit I'm a little confused by 
> the toolbar icons' problem.

You would have to create two of them, as there is currently no 
standardization on the naming of icons, or how they are supposed to be 
used.

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