Common icon names (Was: Common icon themes)

[Maks Orlovich]

On Saturday 23 November 2002 10:06 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 23 November 2002 14:28, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> > Well, prefixing icon names doesn't look like very good idea to me.
> > Just imagine, we would have:
> >   kde-mail-reply.png
> > and
> >   gnome-mail-reply.png
> > which may look like different (in icon theme), and those icons would be
> > different to the user.  This would create a lot of confusion.
> > May be, we just should try to come out with standard icon names?..
>
> Yes, once the both sides agree what the *-mail-reply.png icon should
> represent (shouldn't be too hard in this case) you can standardize on
> xdg-mail-reply.png

What about backwards compatibility with 3rd party KDE icon themes, though?
Should the icon theme packages be namespace version-tagged somehow, so that 
the installer can do conversion if need be, perhaps?