Common icon themes

[Havoc Pennington]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 04:01:52AM -0500, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > 
> > 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.

Well, to clarify, you would have to put the icon under two names. It
could be the same icon. (Probably should be.)

Havoc