Common icon names (Was: Common icon themes)

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Friday 22 November 2002 18:07, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:09:19PM +0300, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > > An y reason why we can't make icon names standrard, at least for
> > > most-widely-used icons?
> >
> > Alex suggested that but didn't get much support:
> >
> >  https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/2002-September/000717.html
> >
> > I am 100% in favor of it personally.
> 
> One can start with prefixing everything with kde- and gnome- resp. and then go 
> over them and standardize matching ones. Most of Alex's suggestions look very 
> reasonable to me.
> 
> I don't think the "mime-", "fs-" and "app-" prefixes are needed though, we 
> already have the following hierarchy (in KDE at least):
> 
> icons/<themename>/NNxNN/actions
> icons/<themename>/NNxNN/apps
> icons/<themename>/NNxNN/devices
> icons/<themename>/NNxNN/filesystems
> icons/<themename>/NNxNN/mimetypes
> 
> With NNxNN the size, 16x16, 22x22, etc.
> 
> So the location determines the type. 

Normally icon lookup isn't done on that level though, you just supply a 
icon name and it looks in all directories. (Although you can pass a 
specific context to look up in.)
 
> Other than that, I think the desktops should prefix all their icons with 
> "kde-" resp. "gnome-", while 3rd party apps should use "<appname>-". Once we 
> standardize an icon name we can prefix it with "xdg-".

I've been doing this for all the icons i've been introducing in Gnome.

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